Package: wireshark Version: 2.2.6+g32dac6a-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
What led up to the situation: Installing wireshark and trying to use it to capture tcp/ip traffic. What exactly did I do: 1. Installed wireshark with "apt-get install wireshark" 2. Answered "Yes" to the question whether members of the wireshark group should be allowed to run wireshark 3. Started wireshark as root, received the following warning dialog on startup: Lua: error during loading [string "/usr/share/wireshark/init.lua"]: 44: dofile has been disabled due to running wireshark as superuser. See https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges for help in running wireshark as an unprivleged user 4. Clicked OK in the dialog 5. The menu entry Capture->Start was disabled 6. Selected menu entry Capture->Options... 7. The "Start" button was disabled 8. Selecting something in the filter dropdown caused the dropdown to turn red, and the "Start" button was disabled 9. Clicked the "Manage Interfaces" button, all interfaces were selected in the "Manage Interfaces (as superuser)" dialog 10. Stopped wireshark started as root 11. Added my regular user to the group wireshark with "adduser sb wireshark" 12. Started wireshark as my own user 13. The behaviour was the same as for root, ie. the menu "Capture->Start" was disabled, the "Start" button was disabled in the dialog opened by "Capture->Options...", and the filter selec dropdown turned red when a filter was selected 14. Logged out of the MATE desktop and logged in again 15. Started wireshark as my own user 16. The behaviour was the same as before logging out and back in, ie. the menu "Capture->Start" was disabled, the "Start" button was disabled in the dialog opened by "Capture->Options...", and the filter selec dropdown turned red when a filter was selected 17. Typed "newgroup wireshark" in a command line window running as my regular user 18. Started wireshark from the window I had typed "newgroup" in 19. The behaviour was the same as in my previous attempts at starting wireshark, ie. the menu "Capture->Start" was disabled, the "Start" button was disabled in the dialog opened by "Capture->Options...", and the filter selec dropdown turned red when a filter was selected The outcome of the described action: I was unable to capture tcp/ip traffic with wireshark Expected outcome: I had expected to be able to start wireshark, either as root or as my own user, to be able to capture network traffic for debugging. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages wireshark depends on: ii wireshark-qt 2.2.6+g32dac6a-2 wireshark recommends no packages. wireshark suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
