FS#61697 - [wireshark-gtk] Assertion failed with gnome

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Patrick Young (kmahyyg) - Sunday, 10 February 2019, 01:06 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Sunday, 28 April 2019, 10:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

```
09:02:59.729 Dbg Name com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar does not exist on the session bus


(wireshark-gtk:7336): Pango-WARNING **: 09:03:00.157: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

(wireshark-gtk:7336): Pango-WARNING **: 09:03:00.171: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
dbus[7336]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file dbus-message.c line 2754.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
[1] 7336 abort (core dumped) wireshark-gtk
```

Additional info:
wireshark-gtk-2.6.6-1


Steps to reproduce:
1. Fresh install a Gnome and wireshark-gtk
2. Run from terminal `sudo wireshark-gtk`
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Sunday, 28 April 2019, 10:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  wireshark moved to Qt
Comment by Patrick Young (kmahyyg) - Sunday, 10 February 2019, 01:19 GMT
after Adding myself to wireshark group, this issue still exists
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 17 February 2019, 22:06 GMT
Can't reproduce. Your error messages indicate a non-UTF8 locale, switch to UTF8 to fix this problem.

About sudo: don't run GTK applications as root. Wireshark has different methods to do live capture from wireshark-gtk.

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