Bug 834654 – Wireshark searches for dumpcap, etc in PATH which may not contain sbin.

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.

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	wireshark (Show other bugs)
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Version:	17
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

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Assigned To:	Jan Safranek
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Reported:	2012-06-22 12:53 EDT by Philippe Troin
Modified:	2012-06-25 11:36 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-06-25 11:36:05 EDT
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Description Philippe Troin 2012-06-22 12:53:01 EDT

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 09:26:16 EDT

/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 11:36:05 EDT

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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