When loading certain preferances Wireshark crashes

This issue was migrated from bug 8005 in our old bug tracker.

Original bug information:

Reporter: iulian
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wireshark
Component: GTK+ UI
OS: Red Hat
Platform: x86
Version: 1.8.1

Attachments:

preferences_core: Preferences file renamed to preferences_core which creates thee crash

iulian said:

Build Information: [HOSTNAME .wireshark]$ wireshark -version wireshark 1.8.1 (SVN Rev Unknown from unknown)

Copyright 1998-2012 Gerald Combs <gerald@‍wireshark.org> and contributors. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with GTK+ 2.24.8, with Cairo 1.10.2, with Pango 1.29.4, with GLib 2.30.2, with libpcap, without libz, without POSIX capabilities, without SMI, without c-ares, without ADNS, without Lua, without Python, without GnuTLS, without Gcrypt, without Kerberos, without GeoIP, without PortAudio, with AirPcap.

Running on Linux 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64, with locale en_US.UTF-8, with libpcap version 1.1.1, without AirPcap.

Built using gcc 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2).

 The attached preferences file trashes wireshark with the following message:

$ wireshark
**
ERROR:column-utils.c:1304:col_set_fmt_time: code should not be reached
Aborted (core dumped)
$ wireshark
**
ERROR:column-utils.c:1304:col_set_fmt_time: code should not be reached
Aborted (core dumped)

The version of Linux:

[HOSTNAME .wireshark]$ uname --all
Linux HOSTNAME 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 1 21:10:48 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

added osred hat uigtk version1.8 labels

iulian said:

Created attachment 9555 Preferences file renamed to preferences_core which creates thee crash

Anders Broman said:

This was fixed in http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=43957&‍view=revision Included in 1.8.2 Released August 15, 2012

closed