Q re networking, might need guru

[Gene Heskett]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 18/05/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Unforch, that  didn't want to actually display anything but a packet
>> list, and now I cannot go back to etherape, installing ethereal-gnome
>> screwed something up, and not even a new make install of etherape after
>> removing ethereal-gnome brings it back.
>>
>> The error reported when I try to run etherape now is:
>> [root at diablo etherape-0.9.6]# etherape
>>
>> (EtherApe:20159): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_set_property:
>> object class `GtkFrame' has no property named `orientation'
>>
>> and its hung till I ctl-c it.  And it was running quite nicely when I
>> stopped it to give ethereal a try.  How can I fix this?
> 
> It sounds like you had previously installed etherape by building from
> source and installing (i.e. outside of rpm), and that installing the
> ethereal-gnome package wrote over a library file when installing
> dependencies, such that when you removed ethereal-gnome that library
> file was different. This is the peril of installing unpackaged
> software outside of /usr/local. But, then I'm not sure why rebuilding
> and reinstalling etherrape wouldn't fix the problem (although it'll
> clobber your rpm database). Not very helpful, I'm afraid.
> 
I remove config.status and config.cache, reconfigured, rebuilt from 
clean and reinstalled, still no luck.

Frankly, I fail to see why ethereal hasn't been deprecated and replaced 
with etherape, its a considerably more capable utility from what I can 
see here.  And this makes me wonder what else might now be broken.

And I did have yumex search for etherape, but it came up empty.  I 
needed a network analyzer that worked, and now I have nothing but 
tcpdump and tethereal, neither of which shows me what I need to know.

Right now yumex is trying to install the last days updates, but is 
sucking at about the equ of a 1200 baud phone line, on a 1.1 megabyte 
wifi circuit according to the speed tests I did last light. Right now 
its showing 889kb/sec, and yumex if half done with a 12 mb file and 
estimating 22 minutes to complete the dl of that file.


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Cheers, Gene