problems in running wireshark with sudo or gksudo
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wireshark (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: wireshark
wireshark to be useful, must be run with sudo or gksudo.
the problem is that when you open it using sudo or gksudo it displays the following error message:
Lua: Error during loading:
[string "/usr/share/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: wireshark 1.4.6-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 10 11:10:26 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wireshark
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
a small workaround can be done by edit /etc/wireshark/ init.lua with superuser rights and put in comment penultimate line like that:
-- dofile( "console. lua")