Upgrade on PPC G5 system won't run but will on an Intel system

[Kok-Yong Tan]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 02:07, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
> Where does wireshark write its error messages to?  I did a "sudo  
> port -uRv upgrade wireshark" via MacPorts on a PowerPC G5 Mac OS  
> 10.4.11 system and while it upgraded wireshark from 0.997 to 1.0  
> successfully, wireshark will no longer start up its GUI under X- 
> windows like it used to although it seems to be running without  
> crashing (i.e., it seems to be running headless).  On the other  
> hand, a similar command on a Intel-based Mac OS 10.4.11 system  
> successfully resulted in an upgrade from 0.997 to 1.0.0 and also  
> successfully runs under X-windows.  I'd like to find out what's  
> making my PPC version go all coy on me and refuse to show its  
> GUI... ;-)
>

Oh, I forgot to mention that I've already checked the DISPLAY  
variable on the PPC machine in the xterm window that I'm trying to  
run wireshark off of and it's already correctly set to ":0.0".
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