Bug 425818 – net-analyzer/wireshark-1.8.0: /usr/lib64/libwireshark.so.2: undefined symbol: py_create_dissector_handle

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Juergen Rose 2012-07-11 13:34:11 UTC]

If I start wireshark as ordinary user it complains about:

rose@moose:/home_moose/rose(6)$ wireshark 
/usr/lib64/libwireshark.so.2: undefined symbol: py_create_dissector_handle

If I start it as root I still get an additional warning:

Lua: Error during loading:
 [string "/usr/share/wireshark/init.lua"]:45: dofile has been disabled

[Comment 1 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2012-07-25 16:44:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> If I start wireshark as ordinary user it complains about:
> 
> rose@moose:/home_moose/rose(6)$ wireshark 
> /usr/lib64/libwireshark.so.2: undefined symbol: py_create_dissector_handle
> 
me too, no clue why though

> If I start it as root I still get an additional warning:
> 
> Lua: Error during loading:
>  [string "/usr/share/wireshark/init.lua"]:45: dofile has been disabled

this has been around for quite a while, I believe it is some kind of protection to disable scripting as root. more importantly, stop using wireshark as root, most of me wants to completely disallow that anyway.  the history of security vulnerabilities should speak for itself.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-07-25 19:09:17 UTC]

./configure --help:

  --with-python[=DIR]     use Python interpreter (installed in DIR, if
                          supplied) [default=no] (BROKEN/UNSTABLE)

Let's wait for upstream to fix this. Derived projects seem to want to work around this problem, too.

[Comment 3 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2012-09-13 17:40:45 UTC]

http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201208/msg00235.html

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-09-14 04:21:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201208/msg00235.html

Bug #425818. Unrelated.

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-09-14 04:27:51 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)

> Bug #425818. Unrelated.

Ignore that.