Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Bug report

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From: Matias Fallenius <falle@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:33:46 +0300
Hi,

I'd like to report a minor bug in Ethereal 0.8.20.

Bug Description:

  The protocol summary pop-up window that contains the list of
  protocols and the number of captured packets for each protocol
  becomes unresponsive (doesn't close itself nor redraw its contents)
  when "Capture|Stop" is chosen from the *Main* Window. It closes only
  after some more packets are received from the network.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

  1) Start Ethereal without any command line arguments

  2) Start Capture by choosing Capture|Start in the main window.
     Choose interface: lo
     Choose "Update list of packets in real time"

  3) Stop Capture by choosing Capture|Stop in the main window.

  => Now the protocol summary window becomes inresponsive and won't close
     itself until some more traffic is generated on the interface.

  4) Generate some traffic on the lo interface.

  => Now the window closes itself.

Other notes:

  - The bug only occurs when using the lo interface

Environment used:

  RedHat Linux 7.1 (with some updated RPMs):

    % cat /etc/issue

    Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
    Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686

  Manually compiled Ethereal:

    % ethereal -v
    ethereal 0.8.20, with GTK+ 1.2.9, with GLib 1.2.9, with libpcap 0.6,
    with libz 1.1.3, without SNMP

  GTK:

    % gtk-config --version
    1.2.9

  Command line used:

    % ethereal


Matias