There is a little problem in wireshark,when i try to run there is a problem for example when i run it popup says: Can't get pathname of Wireshark: PATH isn't set. It won't be possible to capture traffic. Report this to the Wireshark developers. but pathname is setted in options. and when start the analyzer other popup: We don't know where to find dumpcap.
Kindly review https://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity Also review product description at https://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi
I can not reproduce your problem. Please, give us more information about your evironment. How do you start the program? What happens if you start it from console?
(In reply to comment #2) > I can not reproduce your problem. Please, give us more information about your > evironment. How do you start the program? What happens if you start it from > console? > Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8-panic i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8-panic i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:30:07 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -msse2 -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -msse2 -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages loadpolicy metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="it_IT@euro" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi adns alsa apache arts asf ati avi bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crd crypt cups curl daap dbus dga djvu dlloader dmi dri dts dvd dvdr dvi elibc_glibc emacs evo exif fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomatic fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gnome gnutls gpm gtk hal i810 imagemagick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics intel ipod ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kernel_linux libg++ libnotify libsexy linguas_it lns mad mmap mmx mng mono mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mp4 mpeg musepack nautilus ncurses network njb nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin numeric ogg ole opengl openntpd oss pam pcre pdf perl php png portaudio posix ppds pppd pwdb python qt qt3 radeon readline real reflection samba sdl session sndfile spl sse sse2 ssl svg t1lib tcpd theora threads truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l vcd video_cards_i810 video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wmv wxwindows x264 x86 xine xml2 xmms xorg xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY emanuele@tabacco ~ $ su -m Password: tabacco emanuele # wireshark when i start it, show first popup that says: Can't get pathname of Wireshark: PATH isn't set. It won't be possible to capture traffic. Report this to the Wireshark developers. i show in options and PATH is set! when i try to start capture... other popup: We don't know where to find dumpcap. and dont work. :(
wireshark work if i run it in this mode: kdesu wireshark
hmm. If running under su -m is important to you I'd suggest you put a bug report in with the wireshark devs. Glad you found the workaround.
