Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11400] New: Cannot launch GTK+ version of wireshark as a n

Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:35:30 +0000
Bug ID 11400
Summary Cannot launch GTK+ version of wireshark as a normal user
Product Wireshark
Version 1.12.6
Hardware x86-64
OS Ubuntu
Status UNCONFIRMED
Severity Major
Priority Low
Component GTK+ UI
Assignee [email protected]
Reporter [email protected]

Build Information:
actionmystique@acer-aspire-ubuntu:~$ wireshark -v
wireshark 1.12.6 (Git Rev Unknown from unknown)

Copyright 1998-2015 Gerald Combs <[email protected]> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with GTK+ 3.14.13, with Cairo 1.14.2, with Pango 1.36.8, with
GLib 2.44.1, with libpcap, with libz 1.2.8, with POSIX capabilities (Linux),
with libnl 3, without SMI, without c-ares, without ADNS, without Lua, without
Python, with GnuTLS 3.3.8, with Gcrypt 1.6.2, without Kerberos, with GeoIP,
without PortAudio, without AirPcap.

Running on Linux 3.19.0-23-generic, with locale en_US.UTF-8, with libpcap
version 1.7.4, with libz 1.2.8, GnuTLS 3.3.8, Gcrypt 1.6.2.
       Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz

Built using gcc 4.9.2.

--
To be able to run wireshark as a normal user, I did the following:
-sudo -s
-groupadd -g wireshark
-usermod -a -G wireshark your-user-name
-chgrp wireshark /usr/local/bin/dumpcap
-chmod 4750 /usr/local/bin/dumpcap

I was able to run wireshark-qt as normal user, but not wireshark:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

In syslog, there is the following error:

wireshark[8224]: segfault at 38004920 ip 00007fd15062d425 sp 00007fffe0c8cfe8
error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.4400.1[7fd1505fa000+50000]

Should I file this bug on libglib2 Launchpad
(https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bugs), or is there something
else we should do, at least aa a workaround?


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