Bug 834654 - Wireshark searches for dumpcap, etc in PATH which may not contain sbin.
Summary: Wireshark searches for dumpcap, etc in PATH which may not contain sbin.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wireshark
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jan Safranek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-22 16:53 UTC by Philippe Troin
Modified: 2012-06-25 15:36 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-06-25 15:36:05 UTC
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Description Philippe Troin 2012-06-22 16:53:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
Upon starting wireshark as a regular user (belonging to the wireshark group), wireshark does not work.

A dialog saying:

Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: No such file or directory

And then no capture is possible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
wireshark-1.6.8-1.fc17

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run wireshark
  
Actual results:
The dumpcap dialog appears
Live capture is impossible

Expected results:
No error messages.
Live capture should be possible

Additional info:
It looks like adding /usr/sbin to one's PATH makes wireshark happy.
Comment 1 Jan Safranek 2012-06-25 13:26:16 UTC 
/usr/sbin has been in default PATH of all users for quite long time, see /etc/profile. What shell do you use?
Comment 2 Philippe Troin 2012-06-25 15:36:05 UTC 
I'm using zsh but with heavy customizations.
I wasn't aware that sbin is now in the default path.

Sorry for the noise.
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