RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal prob on Latitude C610, help

[Bob Persing <rpersing@xxxxxxxx>]

Martin,
Thanks...you are 100% on the target!
It does seem to be the MIBDIRS environment variable and it WAS put there by
Netsight Element manager. I took out the MIBDIRS variable and Ethereal now
loads.

Perhaps I will have to "no-the-fly" set the MIBDIRS environment variable
when I want to run Netsight. Have not tried this yet.

Thanks again.

BobP

At 10:32 PM 9/2/2003 +0200, Martin Regner wrote:
>Pers-PPL wrote:
><I am new to using Ethereal and am trying to run version 0.9.14.0 on a
Dell Latitude C610 configured with WIndows XP Professional.
><Ethereal seems to install properly but when I launch Ethereal nothing
shows on the dispaly screen....nothing! When I check the task
><manager I can see a process called "ethereal" running and it is consuming
about 97% of CPU.
>
>The problem could be related to a NET-SNMP problem.
>My guess is that you have an environment variable MIBDIRS defined on your
PC and that it points to a directory with MIBs
>that has a faulty in them. Maybe Enterasys Netsight Element manager is
installed on the PC?
>
>You can maybe try to move the MIB files in the MIBDIRS directory to
another directory temporarily and see if you can start Ethereal
>(or remove the MIBDIRS environment variable). 
>Ethereal will then use the MIB directory that the Ethereal
installation-script is installing, but the other programs may not work as
you want then.
>
>I had planned to look into how to avoid that Ethereal is hanging, but
haven't yet done it.
>
>http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200307/msg00061.html
>
>http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00086.html
>
>http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00123.html
>
>http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00121.html
>
>http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00083.html
> 
Robert Persing
Network Engineering
Computer Systems Division



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