Scenario: - Machine A acting as a gateway to the internet, running mpd5 with PPPoE (interface ng0) - Machine B used as desktop - Both machines FreeBSD 12.0 latest patchset (releng/12.0), latest ports compiled using portmaster - X server on machine B configured to accept remote connections - $DISPLAY on machine A pointing to B:0 - An xterm/zsh is running on A being displayed on B - 'etherape -i ng0 &' started on B (should display on A) Result: - The etherape window appears on B and starts drawing a few connections - The display on B becomes sluggish - One unit of load is added on B, obviously by the X server - The connection to the xterm on A becomes sluggish Scenario (continued): - With great delay, I am able to enter the command 'kill %1' on A Result: - After a few seconds, the following appears on the xterm: write(2) failed in write_all(): Broken pipe ** (etherape:41428): ERROR **: 21:34:51.424: Failed to send message to packet-capture process - A core dump starts to get written, ultimately reaching nearly 1.5 GB in size: [0]# [1] + trace trap (core dumped) etherape -i ng0 [0]# ll *.core -rw------- 1 root wheel 1391161344 Mar 4 21:36 etherape.core [0]# Notes: - The program behaved normally before the upgrade to 0.9.18 - I have the impression that the program should be waiting for a second or so before redrawing the screen but instead runs in a tight loop without any wait, thereby spamming the X server and also the network between A and B. - The same behavior occurs if I select another interface, including the ethernet between A and B.
I have reported this upstream here: https://sourceforge.net/p/etherape/bugs/105/
Created attachment 219724 [details] patches for upgrading etherape to 0.9.19, resolving this issue Please find attached patches for upgrading etherape to version 0.9.19. This solves the issue described in this PR. -- Martin
Sorry, due to a lack of time I have reset the maintainer of this port back to ports@FreeBSD.org. Hopefully someone else is able to step in to help. Resetting the assignee of this bug accordingly.