Balint Reczey wrote: > Bill Meier wrote: >>> Log: >>> Prevent potential crash in libsmi. >>> From: Vincent Bernat <[email protected]> >> Since SVN #32006 was committed, the following messages appear when >> tshark and Wireshark are started. >> >> For Wireshark the messages appear as popup Windows which must be >> dismissed !! >> >> ---------- >> >> tshark: Stopped processing module SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB due to error(s) to >> prevent potential crash in libsmi. >> Module's conformance level: 0. >> See details at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560325 >> >> tshark: Stopped processing module SNMP-MPD-MIB due to error(s) to >> prevent potential crash in libsmi. >> Module's conformance level: 0. >> See details at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560325 >> >> tshark: Stopped processing module SNMP-PROXY-MIB due to error(s) to >> prevent potential crash in libsmi. >> Module's conformance level: 0. >> See details at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560325 >> >> ---------- >> >> >> Needing to dismiss popup windows each time Wireshark is started is >> obviously a non-starter. :) >> >> So; What should be done ?? (I know zilch about SNMP MIBS). >> >> Bill > I wanted to commit the attached patch, but I realized, that preferences > are read _after_ loading the SMI modules. :-( > > Could we read prefs earlier, maybe twice? > > Cheers, > Balint >
I also asked Vincent about a potentially better workaround [1]. We can remove the buggy(?) MIBs from the default list of MIBs to be loaded, but it would not help users with older preferences file. :-( I can turn the popup to a debug message, but silently skipping the modules does not seem to be a good idea. Cheers, Balint [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560325 ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
