[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:29:26PM -0500, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote:
> After a bit more poking around, I noticed this only happens when I run as MY
> user id.

Well, Minko Markov's problems with crashes looked similar to yours, even
down to the "only when he ran it as himself, not as root" part.

Did the upgrade to the new version of Mandrake upgrade glibc to a
2.2[.x] version?  His problems first showed up after an upgrade from
glibc 2.1.3 to glibc 2.2, and it turns out that Ethereal wasn't the only
GTK+ program that was dumping core; recompiling GLibc seemed to help,
although a later message from him suggests that it wasn't enough, and
that he'd try recompiling GTK+ as well.

Are your GLib and GTK+ just the ones from Mandrake - or Helix GNOME - or
are they built from source?

Do you have any other GTK+ applications built from source, as opposed to
installed from binary packages (as I assume the Helix GNOME ones are)? 
If so, do they also have problems?

Some amount of rebuilding of libraries from source may be called from
here if a "make distclean", "configure", and rebuild of Ethereal doesn't
do the trick; I'm suspicious that there's some bizarre interaction
between glibc, GCC, and GLib and/or GTK+ that's causing problems.