Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal Crash when setting preferences on Win32.
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Editing the preferences and then clicking the save button
generates an exception on Win32 with the latest CVS. The crash occurs due to
code in prefs.c
/* write the capture options */
if (prefs.capture_device != NULL)
{
fprintf(pf, "\n# Default capture
device\n");
fprintf(pf, PRS_CAP_DEVICE ": %s\n",
prefs.capture_device); <--- Debugger shows exception here
}
prefs.capture_device = 0x00000001 <--- This is the cause of the
crash
Once the crash has occured then you can no longer open the preferences due
to the prefs file being corrupt. Either editing the prefs file manually will
resolve the problem. Deleting and having Ethereal recreate will not resolve the
problem.
Please contact me if you need anymore information,
Greg
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