Start ethereal from a Cygwin window on Win2k, then mouse over the capture button. Ethereal exits with the following info. (RPM package version follows.) Cygwin DLL is 1.5.10. Cygwin xorg-x11-base is 6.7.0.0-8. [root@newred RPMS]# ethereal --sync The program 'ethereal' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 2770 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) [root@newred RPMS]# rpm -qa | grep ether ethereal-gnome-0.10.3-2.2 ethereal-0.10.3-2.2
To be honest, i have no clue how to debug this as i have only Linux machines here. Maybe one of our Cygwin developers has an idea. Read ya, Phil
OK, i've been discussing that problem with our Cygwin developer. The problem is almost certainly in the Cygwin X server on the Win2k machine (despite the error message stating differently). Unfortunately that X server is not supported or developed on here at Red Hat. But for more information about the Cygwin X server please check out the mailinglist cygwin-xfree where you should be able to get a solution for your problem. Read ya, Phil