Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.9.15/Win32 closes program on close of conversation window
On Sep 17, 2003, at 6:19 AM, Ph. Marek wrote:
It works basically, but sometimes (about 50%) on closing the
conversations
window, without questioning me if I want to save my (unsaved) data.
Well, Ethereal never questions whether to save unsaved data, even if
it's exiting cleanly - and it's probably just crashing in this case.
Is there any message from Windows about a crash? (What version of
Windows is this?)
I have, on occasion, seen GTK+ messages printed to the terminal window
from which I've run it on UNIX; I don't know if those are the same
underlying problem or not.
That happened (so far) with the windows for ipv4, tcp, udp and
ethernet, but
(as far as i know) only for *unsaved* data. (that is, in the few cases
where
I saved my short capture before analyzing it didn't crash).
The main difference saving the capture makes is that the capture is in
a permanent file rather than a temporary file (which means that your
data probably isn't lost - it's probably in C:\temp or in whatever the
per-user temporary file directory is in W2K and later, in a file whose
name begins with "ether" and has a bunch of letters and numbers after
that); I'm not sure why that'd make a difference, but perhaps it does.
