Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] RH6.1 and core dumps.
Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > Using RH6.1, patched libpcap (compiled from source tar.gz), ethereal
> > 0.7.9 and 0.8 (compiled from source tar.gz) work only a small percentage
> > of the time. When capturing and selecting the stop button the program
> > will core dump while loading the captured data.
>
> Can you get a stack trace with GDB?
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
Core was generated by `./ethereal -i eth0'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
#0 0x80a79dd in dissect_transact_params (pd=0x81d2150 "", offset=114,
fd=0x81a7be0, parent=0x0, tree=0x0, si={tid = 22531, uid = 40961,
mid = 6275, pid = 6995, conversation = 0x81c04e0,
request_val = 0x81b7d20, unicode = 1}, max_data=64, SMB_offset=58,
errcode=0, dirn=0, DataOffset=64, DataCount=0, ParameterOffset=56,
ParameterCount=6, TransactName=0x0) at packet-smb.c:9068
9068 TransactNameCopy = g_malloc(strlen(TransactName) + 1);
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