Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12695] New: Wireshark will hang at launch on OS X 10.10 if user has no admin p

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Bug ID	12695
Summary	Wireshark will hang at launch on OS X 10.10 if user has no admin privileges
Product	Wireshark
Version	2.0.5
Hardware	x86
OS	Mac OS X 10.10
Status	UNCONFIRMED
Severity	Normal
Priority	Low
Component	Qt UI
Assignee	bugzilla-admin@wireshark.org
Reporter	dttocs@pobox.com

Build Information:
Wireshark 2.0.5 (v2.0.5-0-ga3be9c6 from master-2.0)

Copyright 1998-2016 Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> and contributors.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with Qt 5.3.2, with libpcap, without POSIX capabilities, with
libz 1.2.5, with GLib 2.36.0, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.10.0, with Lua 5.2,
with GnuTLS 2.12.19, with Gcrypt 1.5.0, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, with
QtMultimedia, without AirPcap.

Running on Mac OS X 10.10.5, build 14F1909 (Darwin 14.5.0), with locale
en_CA.UTF-8, with libpcap version 1.5.3 - Apple version 47, with libz 1.2.5,
with GnuTLS 2.12.19, with Gcrypt 1.5.0.
      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3615QM CPU @ 2.30GHz (with SSE4.2)

Built using llvm-gcc 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build
2336.9.00).
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If the OS X user launching wireshark does not have admin privileges (allow user
to administer computer un-checked in users/groups preferences), then Wireshark
will hang forever at startup showing "Loading module preferences".

Log message displayed (e.g. if running from command prompt) is

    /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark
    14:33:32  Capture Warn sync_pipe_wait_for_child: waitpid returned EINTR.
retrying.'

This appears to be because the user does not have sufficient privileges to
launch dumpcap correctly.

What am I trying to do?

1. Launch wireshark as an unprivileged user
2. open a saved capture file for analysis

Workaround:

    chmod o-rx /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS//dumpcap

This will allow wireshark to launch, and display the error message "Couldn't
run ...dumpcap in child process: Permission denied"

(The other obvious workaround is to give the user admin privileges, but in my
case I don't want to do that)

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