Slackware 64bit Segmentation fault with wireshark-1.10.0

Question

I just built and installed wireshark-1.10.0 (as root) It compiled normally with a few typical warnings.

When I run it (as root) I get a Segmentation fault

When I debug with gdb I get the following backtrace

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff14839fe in genl_register () from /usr/lib64/libnl-genl-3.so.200
(gdb) bt 10
#0 0x00007ffff14839fe in genl_register () from /usr/lib64/libnl-genl-3.so.200
#1 0x00007fffefdda716 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libnl.so.1
#2 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

I updated libnl to 3.2.22 (the latest I could find) no change

Any ideas???

Answer 1

This is, apparently, a problem between libpcap linking to one version of libnl and Wireshark linking against a different version.

./configure --without-libnl

will make the problem go away. I'm not sure if there's a better fix.

See bug 7808 for details.