Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Crash Opening Preferences under Fedora Core 4 AMD64

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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:36:24 +0800


Mike Duigou wrote:
With current subversion src it's not possible to open prefs for unknown reasons. Enclosed is the gdb backtrace.

I've tried it with both my normal prefs and with no pre-existing '.ethereal' directory.

Mike

#0  0x000000300022f280 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x0000003000230750 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x0000003000b2d1a3 in g_logv () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0x0000003000b2d226 in g_log () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0x0000003000b2d294 in g_assert_warning () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #5 0x00002aaaab2e24bd in emem_create_chunk (free_list=Variable "free_list" is not available.
) at emem.c:239
#6  0x00002aaaab2e2702 in ep_alloc (size=136) at emem.c:277
#7 0x00002aaaab2f67bb in range_convert_range (range=0x771b00) at range.c:306 #8 0x0000000000443d52 in pref_show (pref=0x771bd0, user_data=Variable "user_data" is not available.
) at prefs_dlg.c:211
#9 0x00002aaaab2e8168 in prefs_pref_foreach (module=Variable "module" is not available.
) at prefs.c:651
#10 0x0000000000444137 in module_prefs_show (module=0x771b40, user_data=Variable "user_data" is not available.
) at prefs_dlg.c:329
#11 0x00002aaaab2e7d95 in prefs_module_list_foreach (module_list=Variable "module_list" is not available.
) at prefs.c:349
#12 0x0000000000444004 in module_prefs_show (module=0x73b600, user_data=Variable "user_data" is not available.
) at prefs_dlg.c:306
#13 0x00002aaaab2e7d95 in prefs_module_list_foreach (module_list=Variable "module_list" is not available.
) at prefs.c:349
#14 0x0000000000444926 in prefs_cb (w=Variable "w" is not available.

Looks like there's a bug open for this:

http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=784