Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] hangup when startup

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:05:29 +0100
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:46:44PM +0100, LEGO wrote:
> Are you building in a 64 bit system?
> 
> What happens if you remove all dictionary files from {ethereal_dir}/radius ?

Hey, nice. This "fixed" my problem with (t)ethereal as well:
jmayer@egg:~/tmp> MALLOC_CHECK_=1 tethereal -h
malloc: using debugging hooks
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0817e920 ***
This is tethereal 0.10.13 (SVN 20051218205447)
...

rm -rf /usr/local/share/ethereal/radius

MALLOC_CHECK_=2 tethereal -h
This is tethereal 0.10.13 (SVN 20051218205447)
...

This is on a Suse 9.3-i386 system.

MALLOC_CHECK_ is a glibc feature.
0: silently ignore all errors
1: show message and continue
2: abort on inconsistencies

So the error is probably triggered by the radius code.

 Ciao
       Joerg

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