[Xquartz-dev] xquartz and wireshark

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

On Sep 3, 2012, at 16:35, ultultult . <ultultult at gmail.com> wrote:

> Having a large problem getting wireshark 1.8.2 and xquartz 2.7.3 to
> work on mountain lion 10.8.1. (rMBP). Each time I run wireshark,
> xquartz logs the following and then wireshark crashes:
> 
> 9/3/12 7:25:22.729 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[344]: xauth:  file
> /Users/USERNAME/.serverauth.345 does not exist
> 9/3/12 7:25:22.787 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[421]: Xquartz:
> Unable to locate waiting server: org.macosforge.xquartz.X11
> 9/3/12 7:25:22.789 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[429]: Xquartz:
> Starting X server:
> /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
> 9/3/12 7:25:24.789 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[344]:
> /opt/X11/bin/xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items
> instead of 1

Those are all fine ... the xauth one is puzzling, but nothing there seems out of the ordinary.


> wireshark crashes with:
> 9/3/12 7:33:04.850 PM ReportCrash[2154]: Saved crash report for
> wireshark-bin[1270] version ??? to
> /Users/USERNAME/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/wireshark-bin_2012-09-03-193304_DRIVE.crash
> 
> crashreport:
> Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
> 
> Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
> Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
> 
> I have yet to get wireshark and xquartz to run since I've upgrade to
> Mountain Lion 10.8. I've tried logging out, rebooting, removing all
> traces of wireshark and xquartz, rebooting, then reinstalling, logging
> out/in, all to no avail.
> 
> Any thoughts or advice?

It looks like XQuartz is behaving fine.  This looks like an issue in wireshark.  Can you send the crash log?