Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.9.15/Win32 closes program on close of conversation window

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:46:43 -0700

On Sep 17, 2003, at 6:19 AM, Ph. Marek wrote:

It works basically, but sometimes (about 50%) on closing the conversations
window, without questioning me if I want to save my (unsaved) data.

Well, Ethereal never questions whether to save unsaved data, even if it's exiting cleanly - and it's probably just crashing in this case.

Is there any message from Windows about a crash? (What version of Windows is this?)

I have, on occasion, seen GTK+ messages printed to the terminal window from which I've run it on UNIX; I don't know if those are the same underlying problem or not.

That happened (so far) with the windows for ipv4, tcp, udp and ethernet, but (as far as i know) only for *unsaved* data. (that is, in the few cases where
I saved my short capture before analyzing it didn't crash).

The main difference saving the capture makes is that the capture is in a permanent file rather than a temporary file (which means that your data probably isn't lost - it's probably in C:\temp or in whatever the per-user temporary file directory is in W2K and later, in a file whose name begins with "ether" and has a bunch of letters and numbers after that); I'm not sure why that'd make a difference, but perhaps it does.