Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Problems starting capturing

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From: "Grossert, Alexander" <Alexander.Grossert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:01:52 +0100
Title: Problems starting capturing

Hello. I lately started developing ethereal, especially concerning protocoll plugins.

First I installed ethereal normally to learn about it. Then I built up the dev environment with all the libs and src.

At first I followed the foo protocoll example from the dev's guide to understand how it is done.
When I finally made everything compile the correct way I started ethereal and the protocoll was
enlisted. But when I wanted to start a live capture the most easiest way (clicking on capture in the interface menu)
A message popped up telling me that no child process could be spawn due to a bad file descriptor.

The same thing happened when I installed the plugin into the normal installation of ethereal from the beginning.

I deinstalled the program and built the sources again and the problem was still there.


Has anyone an idea? Could it be some problem with the PATH?


Thanks in advance