I can confirm now that this is happening.
Calling wireshark in a terminal through sudo works fine, but with gksu (i.e.
su-to-root) wireshark freezes when I try capturing packages.
Note that this renders wireshark absolutely useless for package capture!
** Changed in: wireshark (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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Wireshark 0.99.7 halted in Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198884
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