Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Bug#169216: SIGABRT: ** ERROR **: file tvbuff.c: line 426

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 15 Nov 2002 10:41:00 -0600
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 10:06, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Reported through the Debian Bug Tracking System.
> 
> Alex de Landgraaf <alextreme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote :
> 
> > Package: ethereal
> > Version: 0.9.7-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Note: this occured while sniffing for packets generated between 
> > ConsoleOne and a Netware 5.1 server. Sniffing for "normal" packets does 
> > work and does not generate a segfault. Error is reproducable.
> > 
> > After sniffing for packages, ethereal segfaults, gdb gives the 
> > following:
> > ** ERROR **: file tvbuff.c: line 426 (check_offset_length_no_exception): 
> > assertion failed: (tvb->initialized)
> > 
> > bt:
> > #0  0x402e9c01 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #1  0x402e9a12 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #2  0x402eac3e in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #3  0x401b1c4e in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
> > #4  0x401b1d01 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
> > #5  0x08241e19 in tvb_new_real_data ()
> > #6  0x08241ebb in tvb_new_real_data ()
> > #7  0x08242809 in tvb_raw_offset ()
> > #8  0x08242da6 in tvb_get_letohl ()
> > 

Sigh... the next few lines after "#8 tvb_get_letohl()" would be really
helpful, to get an idea of the source of the error. Are those available?

--gilbert