I tried re-compiling the package with debugging enabled, but it doesn't look that useful. Here's the output from my debugging attempt:
hostname:~# gdb /usr/sbin/ntop GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) set args -L -u ntop -P /var/lib/ntop --skip-version-check -a /var/log/ntop/access.log -i eth2 -p /etc/ntop/protocol.list -O /var/log/ntop (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/sbin/ntop -L -u ntop -P /var/lib/ntop --skip-version-check -a /var/log/ntop/access.log -i eth2 -p /etc/ntop/protocol.list -O /var/log/ntop Failed to read a valid object file image from memory. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1238136256 (LWP 18837)] Thu Jan 24 11:50:39 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default Thu Jan 24 11:50:39 2008 Initializing gdbm databases [New Thread -1244517456 (LWP 18840)] [New Thread -1252910160 (LWP 18841)] [New Thread -1261302864 (LWP 18842)] [New Thread -1269695568 (LWP 18843)] [New Thread -1278092368 (LWP 18844)] [New Thread -1288221776 (LWP 18845)] [New Thread -1296880720 (LWP 18846)] [New Thread -1305273424 (LWP 18847)] [New Thread -1313666128 (LWP 18848)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1269695568 (LWP 18843)] 0xb6489500 in _gdbm_get_bucket () from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3 (gdb) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]