Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Another packet that crashes Ethereal on Win32

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From: Andy Leigh <andy.leigh@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:53:02 -0000
> Subsequent to the previous post, I can now confirm I get identical crashes
> with the following types of LPD packets:
> 
> LPRng lpq: verbose status information
> LPRng lpr: transfer a block format print job
> LPRng lpc: do control operation
> LPQ: print long form of queue status
> 
> Andy Leigh
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Andy Leigh  
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:37 AM
> To:	'ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:	Another packet that crashes Ethereal on Win32
> 
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> I can now consistently produce similar behaviour when decoding some LPD
> transactions. Packet 3 of the summary below will always generate the error
> - 
> Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_text_size: gdk_nmbstowchar_ts failed
>  - and then stop working.
> 
>     No. Time        Source                Destination           Protocol
> Info
>       1 0.000000    10.48.8.15            10.54.113.55          LPD
> LPD continuation
>       2 0.005683    10.54.113.55          10.48.8.15            TCP
> 515 > 1947 [ACK] Seq=18137743 Ack=34748661 Win=2920 Len=0
>       3 0.008413    10.48.8.15            10.54.113.55          LPD
> LPRng lpq: verbose status information
> 
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>  


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