[Bernd Becker <bb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

it happens to me on Linux as well.
You can work around it by dumping the output to some file
e.g. tethereal -w file.
This makes sure that "ld.pdh" is not NULL.
The error has something to do with the new capture stop conditions
(capturesize, ringbuffers,...)

Regards,
Bernd

--On Freitag, Dezember 21, 2001 14:04:40 +0100 Michael Tuexen 
<Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> is the current version (this means the one from CVS) of tethereal OK?
>
> When I start tethereal (on MacOS X) it generates a segfault, because
> wtab_get_bytes_dumped is called with a NULL pointer argument from
> line 618 of wiretab/file.c, which is called from line 933 of tethereal.
>
> Could someone verify if this happens also on other platforms or is it
> a MacOS X problem? Currently I do not have access to another OS
> to do it myself.
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael.Tuexen@micmac.franken.d



Bernd Becker
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