[Lars Roland <Lars.Roland@xxxxxxx>]

frogzoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> By all means Lars, yes please to the new pre-release
>
> Yes problems with GTK+ 1.3, GLib 2.4.5 on XP Pro 2002 (rel 2600)
> (libz 1.2.1, lipcre 4.4, WinPcap 3.0alpha)
> GTK-Wimp enabled causes ethereal to crash on startup
>
> Also, could the "help" -> "about" box please display the GTK-Wimp 
> version no. - then we'll be able to tell you which version we're running 
> :-)

I was wondering how it could be that GTK 1.3 crashes with GTK-Wimp. 
GTK-Wimp is an extension for GTK2. GTK1 doesn't even load it!!
So I installed GTK1 version with GTK-Wimp and at least this time, I can 
reproduce the crash.
The debugger shows that it crashes when loading asn1.dll.
I am not surprised that we finally have a conflict with it as it is 
linked against GTK2!

The crash already happens in libglib-2.0-0.dll. I believe that most 
people reporting crashes with ethereal crashing in module 
libglib-2.0-0.dll have this conflict.

There are a lot of workarounds, but there is only one solution:
Remove GTK depedency from the asn1 plugin.

Short term workaround:
Remove asn1.dll in the plugins directory.
When you start Ethereal after that, you will probably get a DOS box with 
some warnings about preferences of the asn1 dissector. Just go to 
Edit->Prefences and click on the save button and the DOS-box won't 
appear the next time.

Workaround for next release:
Installer shouldn't install asn1.dll with GTK1 version of ethereal.

However, it shouldn't be possible to select GTK-Wimp together with GTK1. 
GTK1 doesn't use it.

I will prepare patches for the nsis installer.

Regards,
Lars