Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can't run compiled Wireshark or tshark

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Abhik Sarkar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I did an svn update on my working copy after a while and though
> compilation is successful, neither Wireshark not tshark start-up
> successfully. I am on Windows XP SP 2 with MS VC2008EE. tshark fails
> to start with the following error:
>
> F:\wireshark-src\wireshark-gtk2>tshark
> **
> ERROR:packet.c:707:???: assertion failed: (sub_dissectors)
> F:\wireshark-src\wireshark-gtk2>
>
> I can't figure out the reason. I find that some dissectors do a
> dissector_add for a table which doesn't exist... e.g.
> packet-sqloracle.c:     dissector_add("tns.port", TCP_PORT_TNS, sqloracle_hand);
> I couldn't find the table "tns.port" being defined anywhere and I
> suspect this should be "tcp.port". At the same time, this dissector
> seems to have been committed 4 months back... so surely someone else
> would have spotted this by now if this is the issue.
>
> I can't catch this from within VS because the process runs for a very
> short time (not enough for me to attach to it). Any ideas?

That dissector's source was added a while ago but it's not in the 
Makefile.common--presumably because it was not deemed ready for prime 
time.  Did you manually add it?