Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2888] Typing "Start" for eth0 in the Interfaces dialog cau

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:02:43 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2888


Shlomi Fish <shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




--- Comment #3 from Shlomi Fish <shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxx>  2008-10-28 03:02:40 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > I can't duplicate the problem you're having on my Fedora Core 9 Linux system
> > using the latest development version of Wireshark (1.1.x branch).  Do you have
> > the same problem if you run Wireshark as a normal user?  You can get it to
> > capture as a normal user by either passing the --enable-setuid-install option
> > to the configure script and then installing it or by doing :chown root
> > /usr/local/bin/dumpcap && chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/dumpcap" (NOTE: This allows
> > dumpcap, the packet capturing piece of Wireshark, to start as root.  This is
> > needed to grab the interface to capture from and then root privileges are
> > dropped.)
> > 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Now that I'm using vanilla kernel 2.6.27.4 , I cannot reproduce it either, and
> everything seems to work OK. I'll try with the distribution kernel, and see if
> I can reproduce it there or else close the bug.
> 

OK, now I can reproduce it with 2.6.27.3-desktop-1mnb . So I guess it's a
Mandriva kernel problem. Closing as invalid - sorry for the noise.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish


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