Hi I'm a noob to the list, so if this has been covered, please point me to the answer.
I've been trying to build/use Ethereal on a Ti Powerbook 1Ghz/1Gb ram running OS X 10.3.1 with the latest software updates applied. I'm having several problems that I'd appreciate a bit of help with. Building: I grabbed the newest tarball from the website ( 0.9.16 ), untarred,etc. Ran ./configure; make. The build fails, complaining about not having stuff to build the i386 architecture. No problem. I edit the various Makefiles and remove references to "-arch i386". Build proceeds and fails compilation of strncasecmp.c because it can't find an include #include <ansidecl.h>. No problem. I commented out that line and the build completes. sudo make install. no problems. Can anyone suggest a better workaround/hack/fix? Where can I get a ansidecl.h and where should it live? Do I need the i386 stuff for OS X. I think not, but I've been incorrect before. Using the tool: Here's my big problem. I launch the tool from a root X window, set my collection parameters, start the scan, packets get snarfed, no worries. After a varying period of time ( longest ~43 minutes ) the main window vanishes. The capture window remains, with the various counters still incrementing, so I think that it is still partially/mostly working, although beyond control. The following error messages are left in the root X window: *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=131072) failed (error code=4294966995) *** malloc[7594]: error: Can't allocate region mach_port_type() failed (ipc/mig) wrong reply message ID task_get_bootstrap_port() failed (ipc/mig) wrong reply message ID Abort I'm not a coder, so this is pretty much meaningless to me. I'd guess a memory leak of some sort is exhausting the resource, but whaddo I know? In order to rule out my build hacks as a source of this irritation I downloaded & installed the latest prebuilt OS X binary from Fink, which produces pretty much the same results as far as vanishing main window. Any insights? Thanks in advance Claude _______________________________________________ Ethereal-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users
