Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Systematic crash at startup when launching Wireshark GTK+ 1.99 x

From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:34:15 +0200
Hi all,

I just installed a new Windows 8.1 x64 computer and each time I launch the GTK2 GUI of master branch, I get a silent crash.
After generating a memory dump and loading it in windbg, I could see that it crashes in gtk_init call:
(1d90.1998): Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second chance not available)
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols for KERNELBASE.dll -
ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects+0xa:
00007ffc`67b61c2a c3              ret
0:000> .ecxr
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols for libgobject-2.0-0.dll -
rax=000000d4111b9000 rbx=00000000111c6590 rcx=000000d4111b9000
rdx=0000000000000000 rsi=0000000000000020 rdi=0000000000000048
rip=000000005949562b rsp=000000d40f56efe0 rbp=000000d4111c9a80
 r8=0000000000000000  r9=0000000000000003 r10=0000000000000000
r11=00007ffc674e1725 r12=0000000000000020 r13=0000000000000048
r14=000000d40f8de318 r15=000000d4111c9c60
iopl=0         nv up ei pl nz na pe nc
cs=0033  ss=002b  ds=002b  es=002b  fs=0053  gs=002b             efl=00010202
libgobject_2_0_0!g_type_create_instance+0x15b:
00000000`5949562b 0fb67b14        movzx   edi,byte ptr [rbx+14h] ds:00000000`111c65a4=??

The corresponding call stack is:
libgobject_2_0_0!g_type_create_instance+0x15b
libgobject_2_0_0!g_param_spec_internal+0x146
libgobject_2_0_0!g_param_spec_object+0x77
libgdk_win32_2_0_0!gdk_pointer_is_grabbed+0x123
libgobject_2_0_0!g_type_class_ref+0x4a7
libgobject_2_0_0!g_object_newv+0x26e
libgobject_2_0_0!g_object_new+0x72
libgdk_win32_2_0_0!gdk_display_manager_get+0x24
libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_misc_get_padding+0xdd3
libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_list_store_insert_with_valuesv+0x101c
libglib_2_0_0!g_option_context_parse+0x3a7
libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_parse_args+0x7b
libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_init_check+0x9
libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_init+0x9
Wireshark_gtk!main(int argc = 0n1, char ** argv = 0x000000d4`0f630540)+0x612
Wireshark_gtk!WinMain(struct HINSTANCE__ * hInstance = 0x00007ff7`ac530000, struct HINSTANCE__ * hPrevInstance = 0x00000000`00000000, char * lpszCmdLine = 0x000000d4`0f612e8f "", int nCmdShow = 0n1)+0x7e
Wireshark_gtk!__tmainCRTStartup(void)+0x149
kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xd
ntdll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x1d

After doing a bisection, I noticed that it started appearing when we switched to GTK+ 2.24.23:
commit 0a249087c311feacf693144372ec038938c47415
Author: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri May 16 09:21:57 2014 -0700

    Build with GTK+ 2.24.23.

    Change-Id: Ic5c385c0fcef4d40a8cb9e7a271d14eb80905460
    Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/1665
    Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Tested-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

But at the same time 1.12.0 release uses the same GTK2 package and works fine, so I'm puzzled. the amster x86 package works fine.

I tried upgrading the GTK2 package thanks to the download-mingw-rpm.py but the latest packages from OpenSUSE seem to lack some libraries.

I'm a bit out of ideas for now. Anyone familiar with this kind of issues?

Regards,
Pascal.