Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.10.3 - bad behavior when user disconnects from desktop

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From: "Chris Dunn" <chris.dunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:11:10 -0400
To whom it may concern,

I'm not sure how to report a bug so I'm emailing here...

There appears to be a bug that occurs when Ethereal is used with "update
list of packets in real time" and the user "disconnects" from a user session
in Windows XP. Examples of disconnecting are when switching users or when
disconnecting while using Remote Desktop. In either case when the user
returns to the desktop running Ethereal, the program displays a command
window with the following message displayed numerous times:

<Ethereal.exe:2464>: Gdk-WARNING **:
gdkdrawable-win32.c:gdk_win32_draw_rectangle:355: Rectangle failed: Access
is denied.

Presumably, Ethereal is having a problem drawing while the user has
disconnected. Perhaps a simple solution is to trap this error and ignore it.

When the user returns, the program seems to function normally. But the
command window is an annoyance, and closing it will terminate the program.

Chris