Wireshark · Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Problem with new installation.

["Wozny, Scott" <swozny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,

It's looking like you're right.  The directory that tethereal was
reporting all the errors from is the same one that I have a MIBDIRS
value pointing to.  I took out the MIBS and and MIBDIRS variables and
both ethereal and tethereal started running fine (just taking out
MIBDIRS cleared up the tethereal errors, but still kept the apps from
running).

I could remove the offending application and (presumably) ethereal will
behave fine (but I kind of want to keep it around) or I could back rev
to before 0.9.8, but I'd rather fix the problem and use the current
version if I could.  I did some poking around the NET-SNMP project
website on sourceforge but couldn't figure out which specific problem
MIBS and necessary imports you were speaking about.  Do you have a link
to the specific ASN.1 stanzas I need to add into these MIBs to make
NET-SNMP happy with them?

Thanks very much for your help,

Scott A. Wozny
Enterasys, NYC

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Regner [mailto:martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:18 AM
To: Wozny, Scott
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] Problem with new installation.

Hi,

I'm not sure what the problem is, but you could look if the problem is
related to NET-SNMP.

Below is an extract from a message I have written some days ago to
another user that had some problems
that Ethereal doesn't startup:

I had a similar problem after I installed Ethereal 0.9.8. That was the
first Windows-version that included NET-SNMP.
On Windows 2000 Ethereal was hanging just after I tried to start it. On
Windows 98 Ethereal was crashing.
I had put a MIB that had faulty syntax (some IMPORT ... FROM statements
was missing) in the directory where NET-SNMP is looking for MIBS and
then nothing happend when I double-clicked on the Ethereal icon
on Windows 2000 and on Windows 98 I got a crash.
Check if you have some environment variable MIBDIRS and/or MIBS. 
I think you can do this e.g. with the "set" command in a MSDOS window,
or by checking 
Settings/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Environment variables (or
something similar - I'm not on my Win2K machine right now).
Maybe you have runned or are running some software that uses ucd-snmp
library. The MIB I had in the directory was not causing any problems
with ucd-snmp, but just with NET-SNMP.
I noticed on the NET-SNMP web-page that someone had noticed exactly the
same crash-problem that I had
on Windows 98 and that the problem could be solved by adding some
IMPORT ... FROM  in the MIB. 
I added the missing IMPORT statements and then I didn't get any
crash/hanging.


http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00057.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Wozny, Scott <swozny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:34 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Problem with new installation.


Installed winpcap 2.3 and ethereal 0.9.11 (win32) on WinXP SP1.  I've
rebooted after install and when I run ethereal it pegs the processor but
no window appears.  It's not consistently increasing memory, so it looks
like it could be a display problem (took colours down to 16 bit colour
from 24 bit just to make sure as I read in the FAQ that 256 colour was a
problem).  

Just to make sure it's not winpcap, I downloaded windump and it works
fine.

I'm not able to locate any debug files and I don't know if I can run GDB
under XP so I'm wondering if there's a way to launch ethereal so it
records some data I can use to troubleshoot this problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Scott 

BTW, I gave tethereal a try and I get the following response and need to
ctrl-c to get my prompt back.  Element Manager isn't running at the
time, but some SNMP objects seem to be trying to load.

Undefined OBJECT-GROUP (snmpBasicNotificationsGroup): At line 395 in
C:\Program
Files\Enterasys Networks\NetSight Element Manager
3.0\resources\mibs/SNMPv2-MIB.
txt
Undefined OBJECT-GROUP (entityNotificationsGroup): At line 1074 in
C:\Program Fi
les\Enterasys Networks\NetSight Element Manager
3.0\resources\mibs/rfc2737.txt
Undefined OBJECT-GROUP (entityNotificationsGroup): At line 1060 in
C:\Program Fi
les\Enterasys Networks\NetSight Element Manager
3.0\resources\mibs/rfc2737.txt
Unlinked OID in ENTERASYS-PWA-MIB: etsysPwaMIB ::= { ctron 150 }
Bad month in timestamp (9900200000Z): At line 65 in C:\Program
Files\Enterasys N
etworks\NetSight Element Manager
3.0\resources\mibs/ctron-ssr-hardware.txt
Bad day in timestamp (990301000000Z): At line 54 in C:\Program
Files\Enterasys N
etworks\NetSight Element Manager 3.0\resources\mibs/ctron-igmp-mib.txt


Scott A. Wozny
Enterasys, NYC
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