> From: Rich Alderson <wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> References: <20090718012834.13FC5242A3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <20090720001958.GA6902@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:51:46 -0400 (EDT)
>> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:19:58 -0600
>> From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:28:34PM -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:
>>> I have just built the latest stable version of wireshark on Slackware
>>> 12.2, after building all of the prerequisites.
>> Try running the GNU Debugger (gdb) and launch Wireshark from it and show
>> us the back trace so we can get an idea of what is going on. It's
>> pretty simple:
>> >gdb wireshark
>> <snip>
>> (gdb) run
>> <receive segmentation fault message>
>> (gdb) bt 10
[ snip ]
> Please note the transcribed octal in stack frame #3. The 8-bit characters
> kept driving emacs nuts when I c&p'd from the window in which I was running
> wireshark, so I had to paste them into an emacs on that window and
> transcribe. It's <capital O-acute>\205<capital U-umlaut><mu>iy<capital
> U-umlaut><mu>Es<capital O-circumflex><mu>\024 on my screen, in case that's
> actually important to know.
I posted the requested gdb traceback a week and a half ago. Does no one have
anything to say about it? I'll remind you that I am not a C programmer, and
need a lot of help interpreting the results so that I can get on with the
actual work that this is holding up.
Rich Alderson