[arch-general] wireshark 1.4.0-2 crashes

[Guillaume ALAUX]

On 6 September 2010 17:25, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 09/06/2010 06:15 PM, mwnn wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am running the x86 version of Arch. The recently updated wireshark
>> segfaults on my machine.
>>
>> Here is the backtrace of the core file generated by gdb.
>>
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0 0xb4e3731f in PyObject_IsInstance () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
>> #1 0xb4e37bd7 in PySequence_Check () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
>> #2 0xb67487e3 in register_all_py_protocols_func ()
>> from /usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0
>> #3 0xb5c5725c in proto_init () from /usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0
>> #4 0xb5c440ba in epan_init () from /usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0
>> #5 0x0808d22b in main ()
>> (gdb)
>>
>> Regards,
>> mwnn
>
> that can't be right. 1.4.0-2 doesn't have python support.
>
> --
> Ionuț
>

You could have updated to the 1.4.0-1 which is buggy due to
experimental python support. Version 1.4.0-2 fixes that. Maybe your
mirror isn't up to date yet?

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Guillaume