Bug 83395 – ethereal crashes with ** ERROR **: file tvbuff.c: line 583 (tvb_length_remaining): assertion failed: (tvb->initialized)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Martin Mokrejš 2005-02-26 10:23:24 UTC]

I started ethereal to capture packets on lo interface, stopped the capture and it crashed.


# ethereal 

** ERROR **: file tvbuff.c: line 844 (ensure_contiguous_no_exception): should not be reached
aborting...
Aborted
#
# ethereal --version
ethereal: invalid option -- -
ethereal 0.10.9
Compiled with GTK+ 2.6.2, with GLib 2.6.2, with libpcap 0.8.3, with libz 1.2.2,
with libpcre 5.0, without UCD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, with ADNS.

Running with libpcap version 0.8.3 on Linux 2.4.30-pre1-bk5.
#

Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.4.30-pre1-bk5 i686)
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System uname: 2.4.30-pre1-bk5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 21 2005, 21:57:42)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19-r1, 2.4.22-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 FFmpeg X Xaw3d aalib acpi adns afs alsa apache2 apm arts ati avcodec avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bonobo caca cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope cups curl dba dga directfb divx divx4 divx4linux divx5 divx5linux doc dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd ethereal evo f77 faac faad faad2 fam fame fbcon ffmpeg flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran fvwm fvwm2 gb gd gdbm ggi gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile i8x0 icc imagemagick imlib imlib2 innodb java jpeg junit lcms leim libg++ libwww live lpthread lzo lzw-tiff mad mcal mesa mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mule mysql ncurses network nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl php php4 plotutils png ppds pthread pthreads python qt qtx quicktime readline rtc ruby samba scanner sdl slang slp speex spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora thread threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 win32 winvidix wmf xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid xvmc zeo zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_cs linguas_cz linguas_en"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-02-26 11:20:29 UTC]

>2.4.30-pre1-bk5

please reopen, if you can reproduce this with a stable vanilla or gentoo sources