Wireshark crashes with a SIGSEGV when starting a capture or opening a pcap file
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wireshark (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Upon opening a pcap file or starting a capture from a device, wireshark hangs and crashes after a while.
When launching wireshark from a console, a bunch of "CRITICAL GLib-GObject-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: wireshark 1.10.2-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 23 09:13:47 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-07 (319 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64(20121023)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: wireshark
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (5 days ago)
Changed in wireshark (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
How long is "after a while"? Is it possible you are simply running out of memory? Is it possible for you to produce a backtrack of the crash?
Thanks,
Evan