Bug#321204: ethereal won't start and outputs a capabilities error

2005-08-04 Thread David Meggy
On Thu, 2005-04-08 at 10:00 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > Debian kernel (at least 2.6.12-1-686) has CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y; > older ones may have that option as a module; what is ethereal behaviour > after you 'modprobe capability' ? ha ha yes 'modprobe capability' fixes the problem.

Bug#321204: ethereal won't start and outputs a capabilities error

2005-08-04 Thread Frederic Peters
David Meggy wrote: > Maybe this is a Debian kernel issue. I haven't ever look into what > capabilities even are. Debian kernel (at least 2.6.12-1-686) has CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y; older ones may have that option as a module; what is ethereal behaviour after you 'modprobe capability' ? An

Bug#321204: ethereal won't start and outputs a capabilities error

2005-08-03 Thread David Meggy
Package: ethereal Version: 0.10.12-2 I think this says it all # ethereal Could not set capabilities: Operation not permitted ethereal is version 0.10.12-2 kernel is kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 version 2.6.11-4 (i386 debian system) the tail end of strace ethereal is capget(0x19980330, 0, {CA