[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

harshas wrote:

> 1. I want to know at which point the ethereal is crashing. I want to use 
> debugger(GDB) to know the point of crash using the "core" file.I have 
> not seen ethereal on segmentation fault generating the "core" file.

If you're running Ethereal in a directory in which the user ID under 
which it's running doesn't have write permission, a core dump file won't 
be written.

> Is therea any fascility to know the point of crash ie the function and the 
> line number.?

You could try running Ethereal inside GDB; if it crashes, it should stop 
inside GDB, at which point you should be able to get a stack trace.

> 2. Is therea any other file generated by ethereal on segmentation fault 
> similer to "core" for debugging the segmentation fault.

No.