Scott Fringer <fringsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hello,
> I loaded a capture into Ethereal this morning (running 0.9.1 under
> Solaris 7). I selected the first frame of a TCP stream I wished to
> follow and selected Follow TCP Stream from a right-click pop-up. I saw
> the brief Filtering window pop-up, and the Contents of TCP Stream window
> opened. The window 'appears' blank. But if I highlight the contents of
> the window, I can actually see the TCP stream. How have I managed to
> get that window to display white text on a white background? I can't
> find anything in the colorize options to affect that window.
Sorry this took so long. It doesn't look like anyone else has
responded so here it goes.
I have seen this before and never fully debugged the problem. It
seems to be an X or GTK problem. What I saw was that some other
application (Netscape for me) was grabbing lots of colors and this
prevented Ethereal from getting the colors that it was trying to
allocate.
I have two work arounds.
1) Logout. When you log back in start Ethereal before you start
anything else. If the problem disappears you either need to do a
fresh login everytime you need the feature or try option 2.
2) Upgrade your video card. This is how I ultimately fixed the
problem. Off the top of my head I don't know what I changed to/from,
but I can find out if you like.
3?) There may be a possible code fix, but I didn't see it in the short
time I spent poking around.
Is this the same Scott Fringer that used to (or perhaps still does)
run the Cabletron SPAM chart and meter apps for monitoring?
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-Andrew Feren
Cetacean Networks, Inc.
Portsmouth, NH