Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.9.1, solaris 7

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:18:10 -0800 (PST)
> I'm having trouble with today's CVS snapshot.  Here's what make is
> saying...
> 
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/greg/ethereal/doc'
> ../ethereal -G | /usr/local/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl ./ethereal.pod.template > ethereal.pod
> 
> ** ERROR **: file packet.c: line 310 (dissector_add): assertion failed: (sub_dissectors)
> aborting...
> 
> % perl --version
> 
> This is perl, v5.6.0 built for sun4-solaris

This has nothing to do with Perl; the error is coming from Ethereal, not
Perl.

There should be a core dump file in the "doc" directory; run a debugger
on it (gdb, dbx) with the Ethereal binary, get a stack trace with the
"where" commmand, and send it to us.