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Wireshark crashes on OSX 10.5 on startup, from macports

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I am trying to run wireshark on mac os x 10.5 leopard. I've installed it successfully via port.

However, when I try to run it, wireshark crashes immediately. I tried uninstalling and installing from the .dmg file instead, but the same problem occurred. I can run other X11 programs without an issue. I am getting a EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) type error. Technically it is X11 that is crashing. Here is the dump:

Process:         X11.bin [59230]
Path:            /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
Identifier:      org.x.X11
Version:         2.1.6 (2.1.6)
Build Info:      X11server-480700~8
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  X [59229]

Interval Since Last Report: 3437 sec Crashes Since Last Report: 2 Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 5 sec Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Date/Time: 2011-09-15 09:54:27.533 -0400 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) Report Version: 6 Anonymous UUID: 4F0C8C81-F209-47C5-B7EB-A6F069555C52

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000 Crashed Thread: 2

Application Specific Information: X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple33 Build Date: 20090617 … Thread 2 Crashed: 0 X11.bin 0x00025f38 RootlessGlyphs + 84 1 X11.bin 0x0011e021 CompositeGlyphs + 163 2 X11.bin 0x00121b60 ProcRenderCompositeGlyphs + 1526 3 X11.bin 0x001236e8 ProcRenderDispatch + 60 4 X11.bin 0x000ec41a XaceCatchExtProc + 173 5 X11.bin 0x0007dad1 Dispatch + 691 6 X11.bin 0x0009b497 dix_main + 1818 7 X11.bin 0x00019526 server_thread + 62 8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9574d155 _pthread_start + 321 9 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9574d012 thread_start + 34 … Thread 2 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit): eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x00025ef5 ecx: 0x00000070 edx: 0x006c85c0 edi: 0x00000003 esi: 0x00025ee4 ebp: 0xb019f618 esp: 0xb019f570 ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010206 eip: 0x00025f38 cs: 0x00000017 ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037 cr2: 0x00000000 …

asked 15 Sep ‘11, 07:11

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If it's X11 that crashes, than it's X11 that has the bug (regardless of whether other X11 programs don't have a problem; if an X server crashes, it's an X server bug, period). Report it to Apple.

answered 15 Sep '11, 11:33

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