Re: Runtime error with nmap 4.85 BETA 6

[henry.nymann () valeosylvania com]

David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote on 04/02/2009 03:47:36 PM:

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:27:53PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:59:15PM -0400, henry.
> nymann () valeosylvania com wrote:
> > > This is after doing a scan, using the default "Intense Scan" profile
(nmap
> > > -T4 -A -v -PE -PA21,23,80,3389), then when I go to the "Topology" tab
and
> > > click on the "Hosts Viewer" button.  Or, while on the Topology tab,
if I
> > > set the action in the controls to show information and then click a
host.
> > > Your question about the command line made me curious, so I opened the
scan
> > > that I ran for conficker (nmap -sC -p 445 -T4 -d -oA conficker_scan
> > > --min-parallelism 64 -PN --script smb-check-vulns --script-args
safe=1
> > > <multiple CIDR ranges>) and I do not get the error.
> >
> > I found a way to reproduce the problem. It only seems to happen when
the
> > scan includes OS detection (-O or -A). I ran an Intense scan on a local
> > IP and clicked "Hosts Viewer". I got the error
> >
> > Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
> > Runtime Error!
> > Program: c:\Python26\python.exe
> > This application has request the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
> > way. Please contact the application's support team for more
information.
> > It happens whether I run the installed py2exe-compiled version or if I
> > run the script directly with Python. If I run the script directly I
also
> > get this output in the terminal:
> >
> > **
> > Gdk:ERROR:gdkgc-win32.c:748:get_impl_drawable: code should not be
reached
> > C:\cygwin\home\david\nmap\zenmap\zenmapGUI\App.py:196: GtkWarning:
> gdkpixmap-win32.c:302: CreateDIBSection failed: The operation
> completed successfully.
> >   gtk.main()
> > C:\cygwin\home\david\nmap\zenmap\zenmapGUI\App.py:196: GtkWarning:
> gdkpixmap-win32.c:114: DeleteObject failed: The operation completed
> successfully.
> >   gtk.main()
>
> This appears to be a bug in the MS-Windows GTK+ theme. If I delete the
> file C:\GTK\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc, which controls the theme, the crash
> doesn't happen. I tried with GTK+ 2.14.7 and 2.16.0.
>
> I don't have a fix for this yet, but a workaround is to delete the file
> C:\Program Files\Nmap\py2exe\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc. That will revert to the
> plain GTK+ theme.
>
> David Fifield

Thank you for the update, removing that gtkrc worked fine for me also.  It
is interesting to note that the Windows 2003 server that I also installed
beta 7 on did not have this problem, I can get host details with no errors.

Henry Nymann
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