Re[2]: [ethereal-dev] ethereal-0.7.7 - hangs in recvfrom() on RH6.1

[Barrie Spence <baz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've built the recent versions of ethereal on RH6.1, but when
> > I try capture, they just hang - strace/ltrace shows that it is
> > is making a call to recvfrom().
> > 
> > Any binaries built on RH5.2 work ok on the RH6.1 system.
> 
> What does "ldd" say when run on the binaries built on RH 5.2?
> 
> What does it say whan run on the binaries built on RH 6.1?

This is from a RH6.0 binary on RH6.1 - it also works fine.

hpqs0580# ldd `whence ethereal`
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40018000)
	libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x40028000)
	libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40148000)
	libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x4017a000)
	libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x4017d000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4019f000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401a2000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401af000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40253000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4026f000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

>From the RH6.0 machine:

tsdlxbld# rpm -q libpcap tcpdump                                      
        
libpcap-0.4-10
tcpdump-3.4-10

I guess that RH broke something in their latest tcpdump/libpcap
RPM.

Barrie


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