Latest Wireshark crashes on startup

[Adam Dershowitz Ph.D., P.E.]

On Mar 11, 2015, at 5:02 AM, Mark Lucas <mllists at arc.co.uk> wrote:

> The latest MacPorts upgrade to Wireshark 1.12.4, which updated without a problem, now reliably crashes when trying to start it up. Previous version worked fine.
> I have the Wireshark app 1.99.2 also installed which still works ok.
> 
> When starting from the terminal MacPorts Wireshark crashes with;-
> 
> Segmentation fault: 11
> 
> The start of the OS X crash log reports;-
> 
> 
> Process:         wireshark [6175]
> Path:            /opt/local/bin/wireshark
> Identifier:      wireshark
> Version:         0
> Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
> Parent Process:  bash [6165]
> Responsible:     Terminal [6161]
> User ID:         501
> 
> Date/Time:       2015-03-11 08:46:12.820 +0000
> OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.5 (13F1066)
> Report Version:  11
> Anonymous UUID:  0EA542C5-0225-B550-A26F-14062DC83078
> 
> 
> Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
> 
> Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
> Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0xffffffffd884e000
> 
> VM Regions Near 0xffffffffd884e000:
> --> shared memory          00007ffffff83000-00007ffffff84000 [    4K] r-x/r-x SM=SHM  
> 
> 
> Application Specific Information:
> wireshark 1.12.4 (Git Rev Unknown from unknown)
> 
> Compiled (64-bit) with GTK+ 2.24.25, with Cairo 1.14.0, with Pango 1.36.8, with
> GLib 2.42.2, with libpcap, with libz 1.2.8, without POSIX capabilities, with SMI
> 0.4.8, without c-ares, with ADNS, with Lua 5.2, without Python, with GnuTLS
> 3.3.13, with Gcrypt 1.6.3, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, with PortAudio
> V19-devel (built Feb  8 2014 04:53:37), with AirPcap.
> 
> Running on Mac OS X 10.9.5, build 13F1066 (Darwin 13.4.0), with locale
> en_GB.UTF-8, with libpcap version 1.6.2, with libz 1.2.8, GnuTLS 3.3.13, Gcrypt
> 1.6.3, without AirPcap.
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5520  @ 2.27GHz
> 
> Built using clang 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57).
> 
> 
> Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
> 0   libgobject-2.0.0.dylib        	0x0000000110e1f855 g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a + 11
> 1   libgobject-2.0.0.dylib        	0x0000000110e0a959 g_object_ref + 19
> 2   libglib-2.0.0.dylib           	0x0000000110e70961 g_list_foreach + 34
> 3   libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib        	0x00000001106ae560 gtk_window_set_icon_list + 95
> 4   wireshark                     	0x000000010c41f09f window_icon_realize_cb + 190
> 5   libgobject-2.0.0.dylib        	0x0000000110e05b3a g_closure_invoke + 272
> 6   libgobject-2.0.0.dylib        	0x0000000110e18eee signal_emit_unlocked_R + 2135
> 7   libgobject-2.0.0.dylib        	0x0000000110e19af8 g_signal_emit_valist + 1948
> 8   libgobject-2.0.0.dylib        	0x0000000110e1a23a g_signal_emit + 134
> 9   libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib        	0x00000001106a05ee gtk_widget_realize + 201
> 10  wireshark                     	0x000000010c3de33f splash_new + 37
> 11  wireshark                     	0x000000010c4259e0 main + 1046
> 12  libdyld.dylib                 	0x00007fff8aa905fd start + 1
> 
> Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
>  rax: 0x0000000000000000  rbx: 0xffffffffd884e000  rcx: 0x0000000000000004  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
>  rdi: 0xffffffffd884e000  rsi: 0x0000000000000050  rbp: 0x00007fff538412c0  rsp: 0x00007fff538412c0
>   r8: 0x0000000000000000   r9: 0x00007fff53840a00  r10: 0x00000001108104c0  r11: 0x00000001106ae501
>  r12: 0x00007f9ada3004f0  r13: 0x00007f9ad843b660  r14: 0x0000000000000000  r15: 0x0000000110e0a946
>  rip: 0x0000000110e1f855  rfl: 0x0000000000010286  cr2: 0xffffffffd884e000
> 
> Logical CPU:     6
> Error Code:      0x00000004
> Trap Number:     14
> 
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?
> 
> 
> 
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Yes, I also did the update, but hadn’t tested it until I saw your email.  Mine also won’t run at all and gives a segmentation fault 11.