Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Systematic crash at startup when launching Wireshark GTK+ 1.99 x64 on Windows 8.

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/14/14 1:34 PM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed a new Windows 8.1 x64 computer and each time I launch
> the GTK2 GUI of master branch, I get a silent crash.
> After generating a memory dump and loading it in windbg, I could see
> that it crashes in gtk_init call:
> (1d90.1998): Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second chance not
> available)
> *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols
> for KERNELBASE.dll -
> ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects+0xa:
> 00007ffc`67b61c2a c3              ret
> 0:000> .ecxr
> *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols
> for libgobject-2.0-0.dll -
> rax=000000d4111b9000 rbx=00000000111c6590 rcx=000000d4111b9000
> rdx=0000000000000000 rsi=0000000000000020 rdi=0000000000000048
> rip=000000005949562b rsp=000000d40f56efe0 rbp=000000d4111c9a80
>  r8=0000000000000000  r9=0000000000000003 r10=0000000000000000
> r11=00007ffc674e1725 r12=0000000000000020 r13=0000000000000048
> r14=000000d40f8de318 r15=000000d4111c9c60
> iopl=0         nv up ei pl nz na pe nc
> cs=0033  ss=002b  ds=002b  es=002b  fs=0053  gs=002b            
> efl=00010202
> libgobject_2_0_0!g_type_create_instance+0x15b:
> 00000000`5949562b 0fb67b14        movzx   edi,byte ptr [rbx+14h]
> ds:00000000`111c65a4=??
> 
> The corresponding call stack is:
> libgobject_2_0_0!g_type_create_instance+0x15b
> libgobject_2_0_0!g_param_spec_internal+0x146
> libgobject_2_0_0!g_param_spec_object+0x77
> libgdk_win32_2_0_0!gdk_pointer_is_grabbed+0x123
> libgobject_2_0_0!g_type_class_ref+0x4a7
> libgobject_2_0_0!g_object_newv+0x26e
> libgobject_2_0_0!g_object_new+0x72
> libgdk_win32_2_0_0!gdk_display_manager_get+0x24
> libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_misc_get_padding+0xdd3
> libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_list_store_insert_with_valuesv+0x101c
> libglib_2_0_0!g_option_context_parse+0x3a7
> libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_parse_args+0x7b
> libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_init_check+0x9
> libgtk_win32_2_0_0!gtk_init+0x9
> Wireshark_gtk!main(int argc = 0n1, char ** argv = 0x000000d4`0f630540)+0x612
> Wireshark_gtk!WinMain(struct HINSTANCE__ * hInstance =
> 0x00007ff7`ac530000, struct HINSTANCE__ * hPrevInstance =
> 0x00000000`00000000, char * lpszCmdLine = 0x000000d4`0f612e8f "", int
> nCmdShow = 0n1)+0x7e
> Wireshark_gtk!__tmainCRTStartup(void)+0x149
> kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xd
> ntdll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x1d
> 
> After doing a bisection, I noticed that it started appearing when we
> switched to GTK+ 2.24.23:
> commit 0a249087c311feacf693144372ec038938c47415
> Author: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Date:   Fri May 16 09:21:57 2014 -0700
> 
>     Build with GTK+ 2.24.23.
> 
>     Change-Id: Ic5c385c0fcef4d40a8cb9e7a271d14eb80905460
>     Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/1665
>     Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>     Tested-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> 
> But at the same time 1.12.0 release uses the same GTK2 package and works
> fine, so I'm puzzled. the amster x86 package works fine.
> 
> I tried upgrading the GTK2 package thanks to the download-mingw-rpm.py
> but the latest packages from OpenSUSE seem to lack some libraries.
> 
> I'm a bit out of ideas for now. Anyone familiar with this kind of issues?

I can duplicate the problem here. If I create a package by hand using
Visual C++ 2010 Wireshark-gtk.exe runs fine.