Hello Michael,

as these tests are related to capturing, are the prerequisites for
capturing with a non-admin user met ? Some hints are given on the wiki
: https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges

best regards
Eugène

Le ven. 9 janv. 2026 à 05:16, Michael Mann via Wireshark-dev
<[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> I'm working on MR 23103 (not really relevant/required for my questions) and 
> it's failing some of the automated Python test suite, specifically:
> test_wireshark_capture_10_packets_to_file
> test_wireshark_capture_from_stdin
> test_wireshark_capture_snapshot_len
>
> I've bisected the patch down to the smallest change possible of the pass/fail 
> criteria, but I'm still not having any luck identifying the (code) problem. 
> The failures are "heap corruption", which I can see as a possibility given my 
> code changes, but a call stack when it happens would go a long way to helping 
> me hunt down the source of problem.
> Many times previously I could look at what the suite test is doing and run 
> the individual capture file in Wireshark/tshark to find the source of my 
> problem.  But it looks like these tests are piping "static" capture files 
> through to Wireshark (so they look like captured packets).  Am I reading that 
> correctly? (my Python skills are beginner level).   Any tips to potentially 
> hook this up to a debugger (MSVC on Windows) or generating a crash report?  
> Or steps to reproduce the test in MSVC (without Python)?
>
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