Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2888] Typing "Start" for eth0 in the Interfaces dialog cau
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2888
--- Comment #2 from Shlomi Fish <shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-10-28 01:44:18 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I can't duplicate the problem you're having on my Fedora Core 9 Linux system
> using the latest development version of Wireshark (1.1.x branch). Do you have
> the same problem if you run Wireshark as a normal user? You can get it to
> capture as a normal user by either passing the --enable-setuid-install option
> to the configure script and then installing it or by doing :chown root
> /usr/local/bin/dumpcap && chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/dumpcap" (NOTE: This allows
> dumpcap, the packet capturing piece of Wireshark, to start as root. This is
> needed to grab the interface to capture from and then root privileges are
> dropped.)
>
Hi!
Now that I'm using vanilla kernel 2.6.27.4 , I cannot reproduce it either, and
everything seems to work OK. I'll try with the distribution kernel, and see if
I can reproduce it there or else close the bug.
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
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