VoIP call flow analyses cause wireshark crashes

[Mikael Magnusson]

1) Reproduces both in 14.04 trusty, and also after downgrading wireshark packages from 13.10 saucy. After downgrade of wireshark to 13.04 raring the "VoIP call flow" feature works better.

2) wireshark 1.10.6-1

3)

I) Open aaa.pcap from: http://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures#SIP_and_RTP

II) Open Telephony -> VoIP Calls

III) Click "Select All"

IV) Click "Flow"

V) A graph is supposed to be shown.

4) Instead of showing the graph it crashes and the following message i output in the terminal:

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Gdk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.10.8/./gdk/gdkcairo.c:193:gdk_cairo_surface_paint_pixbuf: assertion failed: (cairo_image_surface_get_format (surface) == CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24 || cairo_image_surface_get_format (surface) == CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32)
Aborted (core dumped)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rudolfmdlt (rudolfmdlt)]

I can confirm that this bug affects me as well.

Please let me know if there is something that you would like me to try?

Regards,

Rudolf

From terminal:

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Gdk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.10.8/./gdk/gdkcairo.c:193:gdk_cairo_surface_paint_pixbuf: assertion failed: (cairo_image_surface_get_format (surface) == CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24 || cairo_image_surface_get_format (surface) == CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32)
Aborted (core dumped)

[Evan Huus (eapache)]

I believe this is a GTK-3 specific issue - my GTK-2 wireshark build on Trusty does not exhibit this problem. Is there a way for you to try a GTK-2 build?

[Swift (frano-toich)]

I am experiencing this exact same problem as well.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

Linux Dell-XPS-1640 3.13.0-17-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 10 21:44:01 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============================-====================-====================-=================================================================
ii wireshark 1.10.6-1 amd64 network traffic analyzer - GTK+ version

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

Like Evan, I think the bug is a result of an incompatible change across minor GTK+ 3 versions.
Maybe this one:
http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2013/11/04/the-modern-gtk-drawing-model/
I have to take a deep look at the code to tell more.

[Evan Huus (eapache)]

This appears to be already tracked upstream as bug 9179 - based on the analysis there it is a bug in Cairo, but we have a workaround in trunk already that just needs backporting.

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

@Evan Thanks, I'will back-port the patch for Debian and it can be synced then to Ubuntu (probably tomorrow).

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

I have just uploaded a fixed package to Debian unstable. Ubuntu can sync it soon.

[Rudolfmdlt (rudolfmdlt)]

Hi All,

I just upgraded and the problem still persists.

How do I gain access to the Ubuntu Unstable Repo?

Regards,

Rudolf

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

@Rudolf It has been fixed in Debian, not in Ubuntu. Ubuntu needs to sync the package or pick the patch to have the Ubuntu versions fixed.

[blau (blau-christoph)]

I am experiencing the same problem...

Do we know when the patched version will be available for Ubuntu users? ...or can somebody advise on a workaround?

I rely on wireshark and need this fixed. Please see below for my debug information.

**
Gdk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.10.8/./gdk/gdkcairo.c:193:gdk_cairo_surface_paint_pixbuf: assertion failed: (cairo_image_surface_get_format (surface) == CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24 || cairo_image_surface_get_format (surface) == CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32)
Aborted (core dumped)

$ uname -a
Linux christoph-nb 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:12 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -l wireshark*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-=======================-=======================-================================================================================
ii wireshark 1.10.6-1 i386 network traffic analyzer - GTK+ version
ii wireshark-common 1.10.6-1 i386 network traffic analyzer - common files

[blau (blau-christoph)]

I compiled wireshark 1.12.0 following this how to http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-wireshark-1-12-on-ubuntu-14-04-and-derivatives-from-sources/

I do not have this problem with this version!

Cheers,
Christoph

[Kaideane (kaden)]

I can confirm that the compiling Wireshark 1.12.0 via the link provided by blau (blau-christoph) works wonderfully.
I get the flow charts as intended.

It's a workaround until the fix in Debian is moved over to Ubuntu.

Thank you Christoph, much appreciated!

[Kjeld Flarup (kfc-j)]

I got this error in Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Is it the same error:
Gdk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.10.8/./gdk/gdkcairo.c:193:gdk_cairo_surface_paint_pixbuf: assertion failed: (cairo_image_surface_get_format (surface) == CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24 || cairo_image_surface_get_format (surface) == CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32)

If so, is the fix not yet moved to Ubuntu.

[Horst Schirmeier (horst)]

Workaround for Ubuntu 14.04: Install the wireshark stable PPA from https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable .