The issue here is that the preference file does not contain the entries
that it is looking for. Just click on edit, preferences, and then change any of
the items under the protocol section. Then save the new configuration file.
After this the next time you launch Ethereal you will not get the secondary DOS
box.
Coleman Brumley wrote:
>When I start ethereal 0.9.8, I get
the following message:
>C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Application
>Data\Ethereal\preferences line 374: No
such preference "ncp.desegment"
>
>In a separate console
window. When closing ethereal, the console window
>lags stating
"Press any key to continue..."
>
>When I comment out that line, the
issue goes away. Another user in our
>office has several more of
these messages, mostly dealing the mgcp
>preferences, but also including
the ncp message from above.
>
>Does anyone know the root cause of
this and if just modifying the
>preferences file is the correct
solution?
I'm switching between different versions of Ethereal a lot
and then I get those warnings quite
often when using an earlier version of
Ethereal (for preference entries and protocols that has
been added after the
version I'm using).
Another reason can be that I have some own plugins that I
don't always have in the different plugin directories.
Your collegue
maybe hasn't the MGCP plugin installed right now.
When the source code
for a dissector is updated so that it doesn't use a certain
perference
anymore it can register it as obsolete with
prefs_register_obsolete_preference.
I guess that you will not get the
warnings if that is the case and if you are using an older
version of
Ethereal it can still use the preference setting you still have in the prefrence
file.
I don't understand why you get a warning for "ncp.desegment" with
Ethereal 0.9.8.
It seems that that preference setting is valid for Ethereal
0.9.8.
I couldn't see that there has been any changes lately for that
preference entry.
Maybe there should be a possibility to turn off these
warnings for people that want to turn it off.
These warnings are normally
not so useful for an ordinar user.
Regards,
Martin
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