[graham.ashton@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi. I've just installed ethereal 0.8.20 on a clean Win98 machine, and it
crashes as soon as I try and run it.

A dialog pops up that says that "This program has performed an illegal
operation..." etc. If you click the "Details>>" button, it goes on to say
(retyped):

  ETHEREAL caused a divide error in module
  GDK-1.3.DLL at 0167:0092b7a0.
  Registers:
  EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=0092b7a0 EFLGS=00010246
  [more of the same deleted]

I've scanned the list archives for similar problems and only found a couple
of un-resolved reports of similar behaviour. The strange thing about this
is that it's a completely clean copy of Win98 that I've installed it to. I
even installed it before I installed a modem driver. Installing a modem
driver and configuring DUN has had no effect on the success of running
ethereal.

Note that ithis doesn't happen during packet capture, but immediately
before the main window pops up (which consequently never does pop up).

The fact that it's a divide by 0 in GDK-1.3.DLL suggests a bug in the GDK
port to me, but I don't really know what I'm talking about when it comes to
Win32 and DLLs, so I'd best not speculate too heavily!

Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated. If anybody would like more
info to track this down just let me know and I'll do my best (though I
might need to wipe this system soon, unfortunately).

Note that I've used the same copy of ethereal-setup-0.8.20.exe without
problems on other laptops (same hardware, different Win98 installation -
i.e. more patches).

Thanks,

Graham.

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