Since upgrading to Mandrake 7.2 along with Helix Gnome / Sawfish, I've been
unable to use Ethereal. The default font is not installed so I see a bunch of
blocks instead of data. When I try to open the preferences dialog, Ethereal
segfaults.
Not sure if this helps, but I did a trace with gbd to see if it told me
anything (not even sure if this is the right tool). This looks promising:
[jlemay@logan ethereal-0.8.14]$ gdb ./ethereal
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This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/src/ethereal-0.8.14/./ethereal
warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4042e04d in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x4042e04d in ?? ()
#1 0x400dcaca in gtk_marshal_NONE__POINTER () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#2 0x401099cc in gtk_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
Cannot access memory at address 0xb
(gdb)
John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.