ethereal cant save any files

[Asraniel]

when i try to save any capture made by ethereal, it tells me that i dont have the permission to write that file, even if i try to save it in my home directory.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

I was able to confirm this.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hmm..saving to /root allows the file to be saved. This looks like more of a problem with gksudo.

[Asraniel (asraniel)]

just to add, i have this bug with kde, so im probably not using gksudo, but i dont know for sure.

[Asraniel (asraniel)]

there was a ethereal update today, but the bug is still here!

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

0.99.0 still has this problem...
does someone know how this could be worked around?
I don't see why ethereal wouldn't have permissions to write in $HOME if it runs as root

[Asraniel (asraniel)]

im increasing the severety because i try to convert my friends at school to dapper, but if one of our main tools we use at school does not work, its going to be very hard

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

No need to bump severity.

[Arthur (mail2arthur)]

Looks the Ethereal save the current tracing as /tmp/etherxxx (owner root since Ethereal is running with sudo, but access is 600).

I try to 'sudo chmod 666 /tmp/ether*'
then
mv or cp still fails. but 'sudo mv' could move the trace file to my saving dir.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Dapper reached EOL on July 14, 2009.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with Oneiric and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please either a) upgrade and test or b) increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
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