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Wireshark won’t start up

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Aloha from Hawaii,

I'm running a 1.67 GHz PPC G4 powerbook with Mac OS 10.4.11. I installed Wireshark 1.3.5 by:

  1. Moving the application to the Application folder.
  2. Placing the ChmodBPF directory into the StartupItems directory
  3. Copying the Wireshark Command lines to a directory I created on the desktop for them.

I restarted the machine and had the OS fix the permissions on the ChmodBPF, and restarted again. After the reboot, I started Wireshark. It opened my X11. A message told me that it may take a while to see the Wireshark window as a font cache was built. I waited over 10 minutes, and nothing happened. Now when I start Wireshark, the icon for the program appears in the dock for about 3 seconds and then disappears. My X11 starts at the same time and stays open. Any Ideas on what is going on?

-Ken

asked 26 Sep '11, 17:30

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edited 26 Sep '11, 21:52

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Why go for a development snapshot release? It's over a year old, unsupported. The stable releases 1.4.x and 1.6.x can be found at the download page.

(26 Sep '11, 23:44) Jaap ♦

However, none of the builds from wireshark.org work on OS X 10.4.x; we have 32-bit x86 and PowerPC builds that run on 10.5 and later, and a 64-bit x86 build (x86-64) that runs on 10.6 and later. If you want a build that works on 10.4, you'll have to check out, for example, MacPorts or Fink - see the "Third-Party Packages" section of the download page.

(27 Sep '11, 02:03) Guy Harris ♦♦

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Another user had the same symptom (except in Lion) and resolved it by changing the ownership of ~/.wireshark so that the font cache can be written there. The permissions problem was indicated in his syslog, which you can also examine yourself via Console.app.

answered 07 Oct '11, 07:11

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edited 07 Oct '11, 07:14