Opened 19 years ago

Closed 19 years ago

#7017 closed defect (fixed)

driftnet @0.1.6_1 fails to launch with getpwuid_r() error

Reported by: ideinit@… Owned by: gwright@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

Building and installing driftnet and all its dependencies went fine. When attempting to launch it under apple's X11 environment, I received the error message of the following (note, it was launched wiht sudo command):

GLib-WARNING : getpwuid_r(): failed due to: Result too large.

I am currently running:

OS X 10.4.4 xterm: XFree86 4.3.99.903(184)

and all the port files are up to date.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 19 years ago by gwright@…

Owner: changed from darwinports-bugs@… to gwright@…

hi Ricky,

I'll take a look. Might take a while; I haven't looked at driftnet in a *long* time.

Best Wishes, Greg

comment:2 Changed 19 years ago by gwright@…

Status: newassigned

I should also mention that if you have a Broadcom chipset on your Airport interface, driftnet won't work. (The Broadcom chipset is undocumented and open source programs are unable to set it to promiscuous mode.)

The Broadcom chips are found in the G4 AlBooks. Driftnet worked fine on G$ TiBiooks.

-Greg

comment:3 Changed 19 years ago by ideinit@…

Thanks for the immediate responses Greg. I am running driftnet on a dual G5 PowerMac.

comment:4 Changed 19 years ago by olegb@…

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

this problem should be fixed with the new (rev5) glib1

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