Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Ethereal hangs when live capture started

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From: Gerd Schering <Schering@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:13:15 +0100
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I just installed the Ethereal 0.8.0.
> Every time I start real time capture, the Ethereal hangs, without any error messages reported, I can only see am empty "Capture/Playback" windows.  I did installed the patched libpcap for Redhat.  Does anyone know what is happening?
> 
> My software config is :
> Redhat 6.0 
> Ethereal 0.8.0 DL from Henri Gomez
> gtk+-devel-1.2.1-1 
> glibc-devel-2.1.1-6
> libpcap-0.4-10ethereal 
> perl-5.00503-2
> 

I have exactly the same problem with ethereal-8.0.1.
Moreover, when when different ethereal windows i.e main window +
capture/playback overlap and I try move the upper one, the formerly overlaped
region is left blank. 
???

Gerd