Hi Guy
Thanks for your reply
You are correct my apologies I did indeed install Wireshark from the SVN - having installed the latest stable version it now works perfect!
I'll pay more attention to the version I install next time :-)
Thanks
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On 16 Nov 2011, at 02:08, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Nov 15, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Martin Thorpe wrote:
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>> I've upgraded wireshark from 1.2 (CentOS 6 x64) to version 1.7.1 in order to use the command extension that Jaap kindly highlighted below; and now when I run the following trace I get the "Mysql protocol dissector: all fields should be little endian" bug:
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> ...
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>> ** (process:31148): WARNING **: Dissector bug, protocol MySQL, in packet 377: proto.c:2508: failed assertion "hfinfo->type == FT_STRING || hfinfo->type == FT_STRINGZ"
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> That's not the "Mysql protocol dissector: all fields should be little endian", that's the "Mysql protocol dissector: adding a non-FT_STRING or non-FT_STRINGZ field with proto_tree_add_string() is an error" bug. I just checked in a fix for at least one instance of that bug.
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>> This scrolls up the screen, there were no errors during the build compilation process?
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> Unfortunately, the build process doesn't catch all forms of incorrect code, so....
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>> Any help would be appreciated
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> There's no 1.7.1 release (the current development release is 1.7.0), so presumably "I've upgraded wireshark from 1.2 (CentOS 6 x64) to version 1.7.1" means "I built Wireshark from the Subversion trunk"; update to the current top-of-trunk and rebuild.
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