I had the same issue and tried several things. Here is what will correct
this problem.
Leave the dos windows open and go to Ethereal and select EDIT : PREFRENCES.
In this window there is a box labeled SAVE WINDOW POSITION. Select the
check box next to it; click APPLY, click SAVE and you won't have this
problem again.
JCB
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:27 AM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal problems
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Kevin Humfreville wrote:
> I just installed WinPCap and ethereal, and when I load ethereal, no
settings
> changed or anything, I am getting a dos command window, with the following
> code in it:
Does it happen *every* time you start Ethereal?
If so, did you close the DOS command window?
If so, try closing the Ethereal window instead, and starting Ethereal
again, and see if it still gives that warning.
I've checked in a change that should fix this; if the problem is what I
think it is, running Ethereal once and closing it cleanly should make
the problem go away (the problem is probably that you've never run
Ethereal before, so there's no saved window size, and it doesn't handle
the case where there's no saved window size - it tries to use the
default window size, which has a negative height).
> Please note that I am using WindowsXP (on a laptop if it matters).
If the problem is what I think it is, it doesn't - it shouldn't matter
that you're running Windows XP rather than some other version of
Windows, and the only way in which it even matters that it's Windows is
that on UN*X it won't pop up a terminal window of some sort, it'll just
print to the standard output, which means if you run Ethereal from a
terminal it'll print the message to the terminal, and if you run it from
the GUI in a way that it has no terminal as its standard output, the
message won't show up at all, so it'll be less obvious that it's
complaining.
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