Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal crash

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:35:30 +0100
Nina Pham wrote:
It's really strange. When I set a break point in a my dissector file, and opened a small cap file. It ran successfully. But if there's no breakpoint set, ethereal crash when open a same cap file. Any idea? 


Hmmm, sounds like a bug in your dissector ;-)
Does it happen at the same packet, or is it completely random? (I would guess it's random).
You might try to comment out some parts of your dissector, to isolate the place of your bug.
Another way might be a review of your code, as anyone (including me) is sometimes blind for "self made" problems.
I had a similar problem. I spend a few days trying to fix that one, but in the end I found it "by accident" when looking for something completely different :-) 

Regards, ULFL