Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re[2]: [ethereal-dev] ethereal-0.7.7 - hangs in recvfrom() on RH6.1

[Barrie Spence <baz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've built the recent versions of ethereal on RH6.1, but when
> > I try capture, they just hang - strace/ltrace shows that it is
> > is making a call to recvfrom().
> > 
> > Any binaries built on RH5.2 work ok on the RH6.1 system.
> 
> What does "ldd" say when run on the binaries built on RH 5.2?

>From the RH6.1 machine:

hpqs0580# ldd `whence ethereal`
	/lib/libNoVersion.so.1 => /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x40013000)
	libsnmp.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsnmp.so.0 (0x4001b000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40054000)
	libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x40063000)
	libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40183000)
	libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x401b5000)
	libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x401b8000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401db000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401de000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401ea000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4028e000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402aa000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

> What does it say whan run on the binaries built on RH 6.1?

hpqs0580# ldd `whence ethereal`                                       
 
	libsnmp.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsnmp.so.0 (0x40018000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40052000)
	libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x40061000)
	libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40181000)
	libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x401b3000)
	libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x401b6000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401d8000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401dc000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401e8000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4028c000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402a8000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

> Have you patched the source to the "libpcap" on either of the
> machines on which you built Ethereal, using the patch described in
> the "README.linux" file?

No, in both cases, this is just the stock RH installation.

On RH6.1:
hpqs0580# rpm -q libpcap tcpdump
libpcap-0.4-16
tcpdump-3.4-16

On RH5.2:
hpqs0585: rpm -q libpcap tcpdump
libpcap-0.4-5
tcpdump-3.4-5

IIRC, the tcpdump and libpcap RPMs are build from the same (tcpdump)
source RPM.

I haven't yet looked at what has gone into the RPM package.

Barrie


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