Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2623] New: Misleading error message

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:27:09 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2623

           Summary: Misleading error message
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: 1.0.0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Trivial
          Priority: Low
         Component: Wireshark
        AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: c17gmaster@xxxxxxx


Build Information:
Paste the COMPLETE build information from "Help->About Wireshark", "wireshark
-v", or "tshark -v".
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I tell Wireshark to listen to a particular network interface. While it is
listening, I go to Windows XP's network options and disable that interface.
Wireshark gives me this error message:

*****START
Error while capturing packets: read error: PacketReceivePacket failed

Please report this to the Wireshark developers.
(This is not a crash; please do not report it as such.)
*****END

Its behavior is perfectly reasonable. I know exactly why PacketReceivePacket
failed. The only problem is that it says to report the problem to the Wireshark
developers. So here's my report: Go change the error message so if the Windows
network interface was disabled manually, it says, "Someone disabled the
interface" instead of "Something weird is happening; please report it."

Yes, it's trivial. But the error message specifically told me to complain to
you.

--Anthony Coulter


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