That's odd, I can't even get that binary to run on the wrt54g i have remote 
access to.  I'll be able to test this further in a few weeks.  In the meantime 
I'll change the severity to important as the kismet package is still usable in 
other configurations



On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:27:21PM -0700, Huy Duong wrote:
> Hi Francois,
> 
> 1) I have not tried running kismet_server in other configurations because my 
> NSLU2 because it has no other valid sources except for the kismet_drone 
> source.
> 
> 2) I am not running Debian on any other machine at home.  I did try running 
> the kismet_server on my Mac Mini from the MacPorts project, and it works.  It 
> is version 2008.05.R1.  It connects to the drone and is able to gather packet 
> information.
> 
> 3) I can tell you that the kismet_server segfaults before even establishing a 
> connection to the drone because the drone does not report accepting a 
> connection on its listening port. So regardless of pointing the server to a 
> different drone, it would segfault before establishing a network connection.
> 
> 4) I have no log entries from /var/log/syslog nor any info from the command 
> 'dmesg' related to kismet.  I only see log entries for smbd (unrelated).
> I believe I have more than sufficient memory to run kismet_server.  The 
> output from 'free' is telling me there is about 16MB of memory for 
> application use.  Here is output from 'free':
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         29556      28336       1220          0       2368      12760
> -/+ buffers/cache:      13208      16348
> Swap:       524280         28     524252
> 
> 5) My Linksys WRT54G is running the DDWRT firmware.  The kismet_drone running 
> on my Linksys WRT54G is version 2005.08.R1.  It is the version provided by 
> kismetwireless.net.  Found here: 
> http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/kismet-drone-2005-08-R1-wrt54.ipk
> For my kismet.conf, I only changed three values (source, logtypes, 
> logtemplate).  Attached is the file I use.
> 
> Thanks,
> -hd
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Francois Gurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Huy Duong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:28:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Bug#500420: Segmentation fault running kismet_server
> 
> 
> 
> I need more information as kismet_server works i386 and armel
> 
> Does kismet_server segfault in all configurations or just when connecting to 
> the drone? 
> 
> Does this happen when you run kismet_server on i386 debian and point it at 
> the drone?
> 
> Does this happen when you run kismet_drone from the package on i386 (or on 
> the slug) and use that as a capture source?
> 
> Is there anything in your logs?  Ar eyou running out of memory?
> 
> Can you provide your kismet_server.conf, the version and origin of 
> kismet_drone, a trace?
> 
> Thanks,
> --francois
> 
> 
> > Package: kismet
> > Version: 2008-05-R1-4
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > Running kismet_server gives me a segmentation fault on my Linksys NSLU2 
> > running Debian.  It is configured to connect to a kismet_drone on a 
> > Linksys WRT54G v3 running DDWRT.
> > 
> > Here's the output of the program:
> > Suid priv-dropping disabled.  This may not be secure.
> > No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
> > Non-RFMon VAPs will be destroyed on multi-vap interfaces (ie, 
> > madwifi-ng)
> > Disabling channel hopping.
> > NOTICE: Disabling channel hopping, no enabled sources are able to change 
> > channel.
> > Segmentation fault
> > 
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: lenny/sid
> >   APT prefers testing
> >   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> > Architecture: arm (armv5tel)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-ixp4xx
> > Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> > 
> > Versions of packages kismet depends on:
> > ii  libc6               2.7-13               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> > ii  libexpat1           2.0.1-4              XML parsing C library - 
> > runtime li
> > ii  libgcc1             1:4.3.1-9            GCC support library
> > ii  libgmp3c2           2:4.2.2+dfsg-3       Multiprecision arithmetic 
> > library
> > ii  libmagick10         7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b2 image manipulation library
> > ii  libncurses5         5.6+20080830-1       shared libraries for terminal 
> > hand
> > ii  libpcap0.8          0.9.8-5              system interface for 
> > user-level pa
> > ii  libstdc++6          4.3.1-9              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> > ii  wireless-tools      29-1.1               Tools for manipulating Linux 
> > Wirel
> > ii  wireshark-common    1.0.2-3              network traffic analyser 
> > (common f
> > ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12    compression library - runtime
> > 
> > kismet recommends no packages.
> > 
> > Versions of packages kismet suggests:
> > pn  festival      <none>                     (no description available)
> > pn  gpsd          <none>                     (no description available)
> > ii  gsfonts       1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-3 Fonts for the Ghostscript 
> > interpre
> > pn  libwww-perl   <none>                     (no description available)
> > pn  sox           <none>                     (no description available)
> > ii  wget          1.11.4-2                   retrieves files from the web
> > 
> > -- no debconf information
> > 
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