["Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Schorr wrote:
<What I can't figure out is why Ethereal was exiting at some point after displaying this error message. It may

<have been unrelated to the ASN1 error (the ASN1 error was just the last thing displayed before Ethereal

<exited). I can't reproduce this now, though I can reproduce the error message.

 

I got the same problem as you and yes I installed the Ethereal version in a new directory, but preferences

was pointing to 0.9.16 installation directory. Now I understand why I had this problem, but not my collegue that

probably was overwriting the old version.

 

If you close the MSDOS window (press any key) where you get the error message then Ethereal will be closed.

This is similar behaviour as you get for similar warning messages (e.g. diameter dissector).

 

It should be enough to put an an empty file default.tt in the directory C:\ProgramFiles\Ethereal-0.9.16\asn1

to get rid of the message for this specific scenario. It worked for me at least.

I think that there was some discussion earlier regarding whether Ethereal installation package should install an empty file if there isn't any file.