Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I got the following, hopelessly vague, error message the other day on
> > a Win2000 box. (To be fair the message does not seem to be coming
> > from ethereal directly.
>
> It isn't. It's generated by some part of W2K, as far as I know -
> perhaps by the Win32 subsystem process.
As I suspected.
> I'm curious whether
>
> > ethereal.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows.
>
> is Windows 2000's more "user friendly" form of the dialog box that
> earlier versions of NT used when a program got an unhandled exception -
> e.g., if it dereferenced a null pointer.
I think this is the case. After I sent my original question I got the
following from the user having the problem.
Installed NT 4.0 on the same hardware and got the following error.
Exception: divide by zero (0xc0000094), address: (0x007db7a0)
I'm not sure what to make of this other than to assume some flakey
hardware or Windows flakeyness (as hard as that may be to belive).
Even later in the day a new PC was scrounged up (running 2000) and
Ethereal worked. As far as I know the new PC was hardware identical.
The user swapped PCs and my problem went away for now.
[ snip ]
> > Any idea where this error log was created?
>
> Try opening the Event Viewer (pop up the Start menu, go to Programs, go
> to Administrative Tools, and go to Event Viewer - you might have to
> click on the "please show me the whole damn menu" arrows to get that),
> select the Application Log, and look for messages the source of which is
> "DrWatson".
>
> I have, for example, one of those in my message log saying, in the
> Description field:
>
> The application, netsc_us.exe, generated an application error
> The error occurred on 01/11/2001 @ 20:54:42.742 The exception
> generated was c0000005 at address 00441163
> (lo_FreeDocumentEmbedListData)
>
> (ooh, *quelle surprise*, Netscape dumped core! Gosh, that almost
> *never* happens...).
>
> The "View" menu in the Event Viewer has a "Filter" item; you can choose
> "DrWatson" in the "Event source:" combo box, and it'll limit the display
> to messages from Dr. Watson.
Thanks. This will give me something to try in the future when the new
owner of the original PC wants to run Ethereal. ;-)
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-Andrew Feren
Cetacean Networks, Inc.
Portsmouth, NH