Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Core dumping problems in 0.8.1

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 09:20:36 -0600
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:44:40PM +1000, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am experiencing core dumps in Ethereal 0.8.1 in both the SMB decode and
> the Telnet decode ... It happens when I select a field in the tree view.
> 
> It does not always happen, and I am trying to figure out if the problem
> relates to bugs, in particular if I have incorrect values for the offset
> and length parameters for a proto_tree_add_text call, or is it just a bug
> in GTK or Ethereal?

It is likely the GTK+ bug. Have you patched GTK+ with the patch
that was floating around on ethereal-dev ? Gerald put a workaround
for the bug in Ethereal 0.8.2, so the patch should not longer be necessary
as of that version.

> BTW, TurboLinux ships Ethereal with their OS.  Their latest version
> includes 0.7.9.

nice.

--gilbert