ubuntu karmic koala crashes frequently, always when I start wireshark or have wireshark running

[Xtien]

Binary package hint: wireshark

Since I upgraded to Karmic Koala, my computer freezes once or twice a day. This always happens when I start Wirshark in sudo mode, or when I have Wireshark running. At the same time I have Eclipse open, and I have an Android device connected via usb.

If there's any additional info I can provide, or things I can test or try, please let me know.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 29 21:08:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: wireshark 1.2.2-2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: wireshark
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3053): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3053): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:3151): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3184): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:3142): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

[Xtien (xtien)]

After some more testing I find:
If wireshark is running and I connect an Android phone via usb, Ubuntu freezes
If device is connected via usb, and I start Wireshark, Ubuntu freezes.

[Xtien (xtien)]

My computer crashes even with no device connected to usb. It freezes in a way that I can only restart by hitting the power button. Today, the crash also killed my sound.

[Daemos (dimitrisaarloos)]

I get the hard crash. When I am reading or writing from any USB device. sudoing into wireshark does not cause it to crash yet. Starting the live capture results into hard panic without any dump or log trace.

When no USB devices are present I do not get kernel panic and wireshark runs without problems.

This happening on the following systen

uname: 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
wireshark : 1.2.2

[blueshift (sundriedstillsuit)]

90% of the time as soon as I go to select an interface to monitor my computer will completely freeze up. I can't even ctrl+alt+f5 into a virtual terminal to kill the app. I have to hard restart my computer.

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

It may be the problem reported here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=541227
or here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568725

It's probably a kernel bug.

[Evan Huus (eapache)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Evan Huus (eapache)]

There has been no response to my previous request in 60 days, so I am closing this bug.

If you encounter this bug again, please do not hesitate to reopen it.