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[Etherape-users] Re: Etherape - looks like an excellent util, but...

[Juan T. <to...@us...>]

David Pollard wrote:

> The configure script wont work - I am running mandrake 7. I have every
> gtk module (known to man afaik) installed on my machine
>
> running /usr/bin/gtk-config provides this :-
>
> [root@dplaptop etherape-0.2.2]# gtk-config --version
> 1.2.5
> [root@dplaptop etherape-0.2.2]#

> Humm... Looks weird. Are your sure that the 1.2.5 version is on
> /usr/bin/gtk-config?

Could you please provide config.log so as to check what exactly failed?

Regards,
Juan.

[Etherape-users] Re: Etherape - looks like an excellent util, but...

[Juan T. <to...@us...>]

David Pollard wrote:

> Juan
>
> I hope this may help for future versions........but.....
>
> When we have a heavily loaded network, your program doesn't update the display. Its as if the network card (in promiscuous mode) and cpu is too
> busy getting the data, to display on the screen. If I unplug the network card, the screen updates a few times, but when I stick the cable back
> in, it all freezes up ?
>
> Any ideas ?  Or ways round this - again thanks again

Increment the refresh period.
What machine are you running it on?

[Etherape-users] Re: Etherape - looks like an excellent util, but...

[Juan T. <to...@us...>]

David Pollard wrote:

> Downloaded the latest version 2.3 and I get this when I run it - any ideas ?  This is an strace of the program
>
> write(1, "Creating canvas_node: ff:ff:ff:f"..., 59Creating canvas_node: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. Number of nodes 12) = 59
> write(1, "\n", 1
> )                       = 1
> gettimeofday({952601513, 852585}, NULL) = 0
> gettimeofday({952601513, 853305}, NULL) = 0
> gettimeofday({952601513, 853830}, NULL) = 0
> gettimeofday({952601513, 854356}, NULL) = 0
> gettimeofday({952601513, 854869}, NULL) = 0
> gettimeofday({952601513, 855384}, NULL) = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> write(3, "7\0\5\0b\1\200\5\v\1\200\5\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\33\31\2\0\0"..., 40) = 40
> read(3, 0xbffff264, 32)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [3])
> read(3, "\1\1\221\7\0\0\0\0\365\0\200\5\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
> fork()                                  = 6258
> wait4(6258, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 6258
> --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
> _exit(1)                                = ?
>
> Hope this helps - :-)

Could you please post it as a bug report in  https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=2712
so that other users know that it is being investigated?

Thanks. :-)