wireshark crashing

Mark Lucas mllists at arc.co.uk
Sun Nov 25 05:13:35 PST 2007


Many thanks, that seems to have done the trick.

>Did you try updating Xquartz to 1.2a11?  Instructions are at
>http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin .  Doing this solved the problem for me.
>
>--caliel
>
>On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:52:31 +0000, Mark Lucas <mllists at arc.co.uk> wrote:
>> Having noted the various discussion regarding problems with wireshark I
>> have tried everything to get it working , deleting all binaries,
>> reinstalling MacPorts, compiling without X11 running, updating etc.
>> nothing seems to work.
>> I have found that if I run wireshark with the 'Automatic Scrolling in
>live
>> capture' turned OFF it does not crash. However if I scroll down to the
>> bottom of the Packet List pane whilst in capture mode wireshark crashes.
>> Similarly if I have 'Automatic Scrolling in live capture' turned ON
>> wireshark crashes when the pane fills up and it tries to draw information
>> on the bottom line of the Packet List pane i.e as it tries to
>> automatically scroll.
>> This problem existed for me with the latest version of wireshark even
>> under Tiger.
>>
>> sudo -b wireshark
> >
> > returns this in the terminal window when it crashes;-
>>
>> The program 'wireshark' received an X Window System error.
>> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>>   (Details: serial 42521 error_code 8 request_code 152 minor_code 4)
>>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
>> function.)
>>
>>
> > OSX 10.5.1  G4 dual 1.3 GHz
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