[Mário Santiago Batista <Mario.Batista@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

Since, I think, verson 0.9.6 I have some crashs in ethereal after a will capturing traffic. I don't have a defined patern of the problem...
Looks like a reassembly or memory outage (96MB too low ????) problem.

Hoping that it might disappear in version 0.9.7 I downloaded the sources, compile them and installed but the crashs continued.

The Linux machine I have was these versions of software:


[root@monitor /root]# ethereal -v
ethereal 0.9.7, with GTK+ 1.2.9, with GLib 1.2.9, with libpcap 0.7, with libz 1.1.3, without UCD SNMP

 <<ethereal_system_version.txt>> 

The debug of the one crash (like you advise in the Readme):

 <<ethereal_debug_core.txt>> 

Ethereal is an excellent software but it's a petty this crashes that I'm facing.

If you need more details about the machine, please tell me.

Best regards,

Mario Batista
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[root@monitor /root]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000800 @ 000000000009f800 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000015000 @ 00000000000eb000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000005f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000080000 @ 00000000fff80000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 24576
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone DMA has max 32 cached pages.
zone(1): 20480 pages.
zone Normal has max 160 cached pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
zone HighMem has max 1 cached pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 334.096 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 666.82 BogoMIPS
Memory: 94252k/98304k available (1365k kernel code, 3664k reserved, 92k data, 236k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)




[root@monitor /root]# gtk-config --version
1.2.9



VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9c2, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 62429kB/20809kB, 192 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcb0-0xfcb7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcb8-0xfcbf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 04, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 8405775 sectors (4304 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=555/240/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed
Adding Swap: 68000k swap-space (priority -1)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 20:53:29 Apr  8 2001
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
ip_conntrack (768 buckets, 6144 max)
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0d.0
3c59x.c:LK1.1.13 27 Jan 2001  Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xfc40,  00:60:08:5d:9c:c7, IRQ 5
  product code 4b4b rev 00.0 date 10-08-97
  8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786f.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
eth0: scatter/gather disabled. h/w checksums disabled
eth0: first available media type: MII
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and others
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0e.0
eth1: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:80:5F:B7:EC:02, I/O at 0xfcc0, IRQ 10.
  Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
  Board assembly 692290-002, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode

[root@monitor /root]# gdb ethereal core
GNU gdb 5.0rh-5 Red Hat Linux 7.1
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
Core was generated by `ethereal'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/docsis.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/docsis.so
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/cosnaming.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/cosnaming.so
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/coseventcomm.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/coseventcomm.so
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/gryphon.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/gryphon.so
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/mgcp.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.9.7/mgcp.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libm.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1
#0  0x081caea9 in fragment_add_seq_work (fd_head=0x869b308, tvb=0x8b74e08, offset=4, pinfo=0x8c2c588, frag_number=4, 
    frag_data_len=454, more_frags=0) at reassemble.c:735
735     reassemble.c: No such file or directory.
        in reassemble.c
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x081caea9 in fragment_add_seq_work (fd_head=0x869b308, tvb=0x8b74e08, offset=4, pinfo=0x8c2c588, frag_number=4, 
    frag_data_len=454, more_frags=0) at reassemble.c:735
#1  0x081cb1fb in fragment_add_seq (tvb=0x8b74e08, offset=4, pinfo=0x8c2c588, id=49968, fragment_table=0x861dd48, frag_number=4, 
    frag_data_len=454, more_frags=0) at reassemble.c:902
#2  0x081b6726 in dissect_wtp_common (tvb=0x8b74e08, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet-wtp.c:610
#3  0x0822431b in dissector_try_port (sub_dissectors=0x8513d80, port=9201, tvb=0x8b74e08, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0)
    at packet.c:574
#4  0x081aa861 in decode_udp_ports (tvb=0x8b74dd4, offset=8, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0, uh_sport=9201, uh_dport=4663)
    at packet-udp.c:120
#5  0x081aacaa in dissect_udp (tvb=0x8b74dd4, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet-udp.c:245
#6  0x0822431b in dissector_try_port (sub_dissectors=0x850bb90, port=17, tvb=0x8b74dd4, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet.c:574
#7  0x080eedef in dissect_ip (tvb=0x8b74da0, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet-ip.c:1055
#8  0x08224d2d in call_dissector (handle=0x850bca8, tvb=0x8b74da0, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet.c:1094
#9  0x080e0072 in dissect_gtpv0 (tvb=0x8b74d6c, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet-gtp.c:4933
#10 0x0822431b in dissector_try_port (sub_dissectors=0x8513d80, port=3386, tvb=0x8b74d6c, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0)
    at packet.c:574
#11 0x081aa840 in decode_udp_ports (tvb=0x8b74d38, offset=8, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0, uh_sport=3386, uh_dport=3386)
    at packet-udp.c:117
#12 0x081aacaa in dissect_udp (tvb=0x8b74d38, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet-udp.c:245
#13 0x0822431b in dissector_try_port (sub_dissectors=0x850bb90, port=17, tvb=0x8b74d38, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet.c:574
#14 0x080eedef in dissect_ip (tvb=0x8b7c4d8, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet-ip.c:1055
#15 0x0822431b in dissector_try_port (sub_dissectors=0x8500d08, port=2048, tvb=0x8b7c4d8, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0)
    at packet.c:574
#16 0x080cbea7 in ethertype (etype=2048, tvb=0x8b7c470, offset_after_etype=14, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0, fh_tree=0x0, 
    etype_id=2110, trailer_id=2112) at packet-ethertype.c:155
#17 0x080cbc46 in dissect_eth (tvb=0x8b7c470, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet-eth.c:237
#18 0x0822431b in dissector_try_port (sub_dissectors=0x85025f0, port=1, tvb=0x8b7c470, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet.c:574
#19 0x080d2728 in dissect_frame (tvb=0x8b7c470, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet-frame.c:173
#20 0x08224d2d in call_dissector (handle=0x8502680, tvb=0x8b7c470, pinfo=0x8c2c588, tree=0x0) at packet.c:1094
#21 0x08223f76 in dissect_packet (edt=0x8c2c580, pseudo_header=0x861a79c, pd=0x86a4008 "", fd=0x8c2ddd8, cinfo=0x84f78b8)
    at packet.c:299
#22 0x081d1952 in add_packet_to_packet_list (fdata=0x8c2ddd8, cf=0x84e77a0, pseudo_header=0x861a79c, buf=0x86a4008 "", refilter=1)
    at file.c:680
#23 0x081d1c10 in read_packet (cf=0x84e77a0, offset=4151716) at file.c:823
#24 0x081d1704 in continue_tail_cap_file (cf=0x84e77a0, to_read=58, err=0xbfffe6fc) at file.c:516
#25 0x081cf0dc in cap_file_input_cb (data=0x84e77a0, source=7, condition=GDK_INPUT_READ) at capture.c:854
#26 0x4025db46 in gdk_io_invoke () at eval.c:41
#27 0x4029001e in g_io_unix_dispatch () at eval.c:41
#28 0x402917f3 in g_main_dispatch () at eval.c:41
#29 0x40291dd9 in g_main_iterate () at eval.c:41
#30 0x40291f8c in g_main_run () at eval.c:41
#31 0x401a5803 in gtk_main () at eval.c:41
#32 0x0820a316 in main (argc=0, argv=0xbffffac0) at main.c:2024
#33 0x403ee177 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8209230 <main>, argc=1, ubp_av=0xbffffabc, init=0x8067d2c <_init>, 
    fini=0x823e880 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000e184 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffaac) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129
(gdb) quit