[Wireshark-dev] Crash on Edit Preferences

2008-12-03 Thread Abhik Sarkar
Hello All, My SVN copy of Wireshark has been, for a while, crashing when I go to Edit Preferences. I finally decided to get to the bottom of this and have some very strange observations... but to start at the beginning: OS: Windows XP Professional SVN revision: 26908 Build Env: VC++ 2008 EE To

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Crash on Edit Preferences

2008-12-03 Thread Martin Lutz
Hi, I had the same problem. A clean build got me out of this. Regards, Martin. On 03.12.2008, at 20:10, Abhik Sarkar wrote: Hello All, My SVN copy of Wireshark has been, for a while, crashing when I go to Edit Preferences. I finally decided to get to the bottom of this and have some very

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Crash on Edit Preferences

2008-12-03 Thread Bill Meier
Abhik Sarkar wrote: Hello All, My SVN copy of Wireshark has been, for a while, crashing when I go to Edit Preferences. I finally decided to get to the bottom of this and have some very strange observations... but to start at the beginning: OS: Windows XP Professional SVN revision: 26908

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Crash on Edit Preferences

2008-12-03 Thread Guy Harris
On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Abhik Sarkar wrote: To investigate, I start Wireshark and then attach to it from VC++. Then I go to Edit Preferences. The result is that the program always stops due to an access violation and VC++ opens the file packet-vnc.c and breaks at this block in

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Crash on Edit Preferences

2008-12-03 Thread didier
Hi, Le mercredi 03 décembre 2008 à 14:14 -0800, Guy Harris a écrit : If you haven't changed any protocol preferences, that's another bug - it shouldn't be doing any re-dissection if nothing that would affect dissection was changed. Currently opening the preferences dialog always trigger

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Crash on Edit Preferences

2008-12-03 Thread Abhik Sarkar
Thanks Martin... I'll give that a shot. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Martin Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had the same problem. A clean build got me out of this. Regards, Martin. ___ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Crash on Edit Preferences

2008-12-03 Thread Abhik Sarkar
Hi Bill, Here are the answers. Guy, I think these answer your questions too. Is this similar to bug #2053 ? (https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2053) No. When do you get the crash ? If you are displaying packets and the crash happens when you exit edit ! preferences, then

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Crash on Edit Preferences

2008-12-03 Thread Abhik Sarkar
Hi Martin, Thanks... this fixed it. Seems to correspond to the first item at http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/CommonProblems. Regards, Abhik. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Abhik Sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Martin... I'll give that a shot. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:55 PM,