Coleman Brumley wrote: >When I start ethereal 0.9.8, I get the following message: >C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application >Data\Ethereal\preferences line 374: No such preference "ncp.desegment" > >In a separate console window. When closing ethereal, the console window >lags stating "Press any key to continue..." > >When I comment out that line, the issue goes away. Another user in our >office has several more of these messages, mostly dealing the mgcp >preferences, but also including the ncp message from above. > >Does anyone know the root cause of this and if just modifying the >preferences file is the correct solution?
I'm switching between different versions of Ethereal a lot and then I get those warnings quite often when using an earlier version of Ethereal (for preference entries and protocols that has been added after the version I'm using). Another reason can be that I have some own plugins that I don't always have in the different plugin directories. Your collegue maybe hasn't the MGCP plugin installed right now. When the source code for a dissector is updated so that it doesn't use a certain perference anymore it can register it as obsolete with prefs_register_obsolete_preference. I guess that you will not get the warnings if that is the case and if you are using an older version of Ethereal it can still use the preference setting you still have in the prefrence file. I don't understand why you get a warning for "ncp.desegment" with Ethereal 0.9.8. It seems that that preference setting is valid for Ethereal 0.9.8. I couldn't see that there has been any changes lately for that preference entry. Maybe there should be a possibility to turn off these warnings for people that want to turn it off. These warnings are normally not so useful for an ordinar user. Regards, Martin
