Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Segmentation Fault on v0.8.13-1 for Linux

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:24:52 -0500
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:14:13AM -0500, Wiley, Rob wrote:
> When I run v.0.8.13-1 from Linux,  it runs fine for the first capture.   If
> I choose to restart a new capture, without closing out ethereal,  I get a
> segmentation fault.    I can restart ethereal and it runs fine again, but
> the second attempt to capture dies. 
> 
> When I run it under GDB,   here's the output.
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x40183569 in g_mem_chunk_destroy () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0

I can't replicate it on my system.

Can you type 'bt' in gdb to get a backtrace, and send us that
output, too? g_mem_chunk_destroy() is called from many places in
the Ethereal code, so we need more info. This should be sent to
ethereal-dev instead of ethereal-users.

--gilbert