Re: [ethereal-dev] problem with 'live' captures and latest CVS.

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:55:11AM -0500, Paul Wagland wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Gilbert,
> 
> Line 666 for me is the same as for you.
> ie:
> 
> > That's interesting. What is on line 666 of your file.c? On mine, it's
> >
> >   fdata->next = NULL;
> 
> Yes, I had assumed that fdata was NULL, but have not yet looked at the
> situation to actually work out what was going on. I don't still have the
> core, but this problem is easily reproducible for me.... :-)
> 
> There, just generated another one....Yep, fdata is NULL.
> 
> Now, why is fdata NULL? Obviously g_mem_chunk_alloc(cf->plist_chunk) 
> failed,
> but why.  Further looking indicates that cf is valid, but cf->plist_chunk
> probably is not. cf->plist_chunk is currently 0, normally a malloc of 0
> returns NULL. so g_mem_chunk_alloc is probably doing the right thing.

cf->plist_chunk should refer to the GMemChunk pointer which has lots
of allocated memory from which frame_data-sized chunks handed out. So,
we need to track down why cf->plist_chunk is NULL.

--gilbert