Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal crashes while opening a file

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:31:39 -0800
März, Frank wrote:


Using the file in tethereal give the following output.

/tethereal -r moritz.eth -R "(gtp)" -w test.eth
965444
** ERROR **: file proto.c: line 2072 (alloc_field_info): assertion failed: (*length >= 0) 
//aborting...
Abgebrochen

[root@box01 root]#
Can you run Tethereal on the file as yourself, rather than as root, and get a core dump?
Does that version of Linux save core dumps somewhere other than in the working directory of the process? (I seem to remember some option to configure a "core dump name" string in Linux - I forget whether it can change the directory into which core dump files are saved or not.) 

If not, can you send us the file that causes the crash?