Hi Chris,

>From the top of my head there's an environment variable which can be set on 
>running glib based apps that cause these apps to stop when they hit these. 
>Running in a debugger allows you to to backtrace to the source. 

Thanks,
Jaap

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On 2 okt. 2010, at 21:39, Chris Maynard <[email protected]> wrote:

> Stephen Fisher <st...@...> writes:
>> Do you have a different version installed on the system while you're 
>> trying to run from the build directory?  I've run into problems in the 
>> past with that.
>> 
> 
> Yes, an older version was already installed, 1.0.5.  I removed it and did some
> minor cleanup and was then able to run tshark from the build directory.  
> Before
> I removed it, libtool showed the libraries linked as those in /usr/local/lib/
> rather than in <build_dir>/.libs/, so that definitely was the problem, 
> although
> I find it a bit strange that it works during the build process (with 1.4.0 at
> least) without having to uninstall the older version.  That happens when 
> "tshark
> -G" is run to generate wireshark-filter.pod, as in:
> 
> WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY=1 ../tshark -G fields | \
>        /usr/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl ./wireshark-filter.pod.template > 
> wireshark-filter.pod
> 
> Anyway, thanks for your help on this one.  One problem solved.  Now to try to
> figure out why I'm getting 23145 occurrences of the following GLib error when 
> I
> try to run tshark:
> 
> (process:19019): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_string_insert_c: assertion `pos <= 
> string->
> len' failed
> 
> I've been seeing these errors for a long time now on this system (which is why
> it was still running 1.0.5), but I hadn't dug deep enough yet to try to figure
> out why and how to eliminate them.  Any ideas on tracking this one down too
> would be greatly appreciated.  Is it possibly a glib version problem?  This
> system is running with glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6.  I can't seem to find where the
> minimum glib version requirement for wireshark is mentioned.
> 
> 
> 
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