Wireshark · Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Apple Mac OS X crash on start

[Mark Boltz <mboltz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to build Wireshark on an Apple MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4.9. Here's my wireshark --version output:

enterprise:~/Documents mboltz$ wireshark --version

wireshark 0.99.5

Copyright 1998-2007 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.

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 with GTK+ 2.10.12, with GLib 2.13.2, with libpcap 0.9.4, with libz

1.2.3, without libpcre, without Net-SNMP, without ADNS, without Lua, without

GnuTLS, without Gcrypt, with MIT Kerberos, without PortAudio, without AirPcap.

NOTE: this build doesn't support the "matches" operator for Wireshark filter

syntax.

Running on Darwin 8.9.1, with libpcap version 0.9.4.

Built using gcc 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367).

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I built everything in the following manner:

As of this writing (30 may 2007), the latest versions were:

        pkg-config 0.21 found at www.freedesktop.org

        freetype 2.3.4 found at freetype.sourceforge.net

        gettext 0.16 found at ftp.gnu.org or mirror

        glib 2.13.2 found at ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib

        cairo 1.4.6 found @ www.cairographics.org

        pango 1.17.0 found at ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango

        atk 1.19.1 found at ftp.gnome.org

and     gtk+ 2.10.12

[ I switched atk to 1.18.0, because 1.19.1 complained about missing gnome-something or other, and I certainly don't want to build Gnome for OS X]

I then built everything from source in this way:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgc

onfig"

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

configure/make/make install pkg-config

configure/make/make install freetype

configure/make/make install gettext

   configure --without-libjpeg --without-libpng --without-libtiff for rest:

configure/make/make install glib

configure/make/make install cairo

configure/make/make install pango

configure/make/make install atk

configure/make/make install gtk+

and for cairo had to switch to --disable-png instead. Then compiled wireshark 0.99.5 with

configure/make/make install.

Actually, the make install was a "sudo make install", the rest were just as me in my ~/src directory.

Wireshark seemed to compile cleanly, but when I go to start it under X11 now, it loads the splash for init dissectors, and then crashed with:

mboltz$ wireshark

(wireshark:12581): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file: assertion `filename != NULL' failed

(wireshark:12581): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Bus error

Any ideas?

--

Mark Boltz

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little

temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

  reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor

  November 11, 1755