Re: Ethereal Failing after Ubuntu Upgrade

Hi,

You could try to tick all three Display Options tickboxes in the Capture
Options dialog and start a capture from there. This prevents the capture
info dialog from appearing, the one most likely to cause this.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, TimothyR wrote:

> I have an IBM T42 laptop that had Ubuntu Breezy (5.10) on it and I
> never had a problem running ethereal. I upgraded it to Dapper (6.06) and
> keep getting the following errors. I thought that they may be a issue
> with the upgrade, so I reinstalled Dapper from scratch and still keep
> getting these errors. Ethereal will capture for a short while and then
> just stop capturing packets though it looks like it is still running. I
> get these errors on the terminal that I sudo ethereal from. Any pointers
> to fixing this would be appreciated.  Here are the errors:
>
> (ethereal:6056): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkProgressBar'
>
> (ethereal:6056): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_progress_bar_update: assertion `GTK_IS_PROGRESS_BAR (pbar)' failed
>
> (ethereal:6056): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkLabel'
>
> (ethereal:6056): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_text: assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed
>
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