Error when trying to start wireshark under X11

[Kok-Yong Tan]

On 7/16/12 00:31, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
> On 7/16/12 00:11, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
>> On 7/15/12 23:27, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Kok-Yong Tan 
>>> <ktan at realityartisans.com <mailto:ktan at realityartisans.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Can anyone tell me what this error means when I try to start
>>>     wireshark in an xterm window via the X11 system:
>>>
>>>     bash-3.2$ sudo wireshark
>>>
>>>     (wireshark:11767): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
>>>
>>>
>>> It means something messed with $DISPLAY, which you should not set on 
>>> OS X; launchd sets it correctly and overriding it can cause problems 
>>> like this.  You're probably setting it in .bash_profile (or 
>>> .profile, or being really wrong and setting it in .bashrc).  Don't.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> brandon s allbery allbery.b at gmail.com <mailto:allbery.b at gmail.com>
>>> wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 
>>> vm/sms
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the info.  I went into .bashrc and found an explicit 
>> setting for the DISPLAY environment variable which I ripped out.  
>> Then I restarted X11 and did "sudo wireshark" whereupon X11 crashed 
>> and took wireshark with it.  I then tried doing the same thing under 
>> a Terminal window and the same thing happened, except I got an extra 
>> line of error (the last line) and Terminal didn't upchuck:
>>
>> Last login: Sun Jul 15 23:47:43 on console
>> zeus:~ kytan$ echo $DISPLAY
>> /tmp/launch-vuNxLR/:0
>> zeus:~ kytan$ sudo wireshark
>> Password:
>> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-vuNxLR/:0".
>>
>> (wireshark:344): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot 
>> allocate memory)
>> wireshark: Fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X 
>> server /tmp/launch-vuNxLR/:0.
>> zeus:~ kytan$
>>
>> While wireshark was attempting to come up, it displayed a grey but 
>> blank window before X11 died and kicked wireshark's legs out from 
>> under it...  Any ideas that don't involve having to reinstall the X11 
>> server executables?
>>
> It appears that when I changed the default compiler, the "sudo port -v 
> install wireshark configure.compiler=gcc-4.2" command might not have 
> recompiled the ports that wireshark depends on and also compiled a 
> different variant than what I wanted, thus contributing to this 
> problem.  So, I've uninstalled the unwanted variants, leaving the one 
> I want and try the following command in the meantime and let it do its 
> "thing" overnight and will report back on what happens if the build 
> succeeds and when I try to run the results:
>
> sudo port -v upgrade wireshark configure.compiler=gcc-4.2

Hmmm...that seems to be only recompiling wireshark itself.  Is there a 
command in MacPorts that will do a clean for *EVERYTHING* that wireshark 
depends on without wiping out tarballs?  i.e., take the list generated 
by "port -v rdeps wireshark" and run "port clean <portname>" on every 
individual portname?  Then I can recompile the whole tree from scratch.



-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 6240 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/attachments/20120716/54c6f6c7/attachment.p7s>