Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] RH6.2 + 0.8.8 src = abit unstable; am I doing anything wron

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 12:48:05 -0500
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:33:28PM -0500, Rabie Van Der Merwe wrote:
> 
> 
> I am running RH6.2
> with
> libpcap-0.4-16ethereal.i386.rpm
> ucd-snmp-4.0.1-4.i386.rpm
> ethereal-0.8.7-1.i386.rpm
> 
> And it worked fine, now I got the 0.8.8 src and ethereal-lipcab but with 
> the
> standard ucd-snmp that comes with RH6.2. 0.8.8 complied fine and runs, but
> seems abit unstable, I captured fine, but on trying to reopen the cap file,
> ethereal reads it in, sits and thinks for a while (no CPU usage) and then
> dies with a core dump.
> 
> Any Ideas, because if I can't resolve this then it's back to 0.8.7. :(
> 
> Rabie

Producing a core dump (see the instructions at the end of the README file)
or producing a capture file which reproduces this behaviour would help
us find the bug. Send either to ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx

--gilbert