wireshark install failed? (Attempting to fetch docbkx412.zip from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/docbook-xml-4.1.2)

Mike Savory msavory1 at nzbox.com
Sat Jan 12 01:04:45 PST 2008


Hi Greg

I had this problem

Upgrading to the latest XQuartz fixed it for me....

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/

see this blog for more info
http://www.anders.com/cms/241/Wireshark/MacPorts


Cheers

Mike

On Jan 12, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2008, at 02:16, Greg Hauptmann wrote:
>
>> I actually get the following error when running wireshark, i.e.  
>> after a few seconds of a capture:
>>
>> Macintosh:~ greg$ wireshark --sync
>> 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 50746 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.)
>> Macintosh:~ greg$
>
>
> [snip]
>
> I searched the issue tracker for tickets with "wireshark" in the  
> summary and found that this has already been reported:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13740
>
> I've added you to the Cc list so you'll be informed of any progress.
>
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