Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Need help !! "tshark: Child capture process died: Segmentati

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:06:30 -0400


yenan wrote:
Hi, folks:
Really need help here! I am running tshark on ppc hardware(somebody get it compiled using crosscomplier), when I try to run tshark, it will crash right the way: tshark: Child capture process died: Segmentation violation
0 packets captured
I searched through the we
b, this kind of error seems was considered as a bug in long time ago, but what about now? How can I handle/fix this crash? What cause this, is tshark missing any child capture file? Any help will be greatly appreciated! wireshark version : 0.99.8

The child process tshark refers to is dumpcap. Something is wrong with that program that is causing it to crash: either it wasn't (cross-) compiled correctly or there's a bug.

First thing to try: does dumpcap run by itself?
Second thing to try: upgrade to Wireshark-1.0.2