

Now I can click WireShark's icon in the Dock, and it appears to be working fine.Wireshark is a free tool that should be part of every networking professional’s arsenal. Void QCocoaMenu::insertNative(QCocoaMenuItem *, QCocoaMenuItem *) Menu item is already in a menu, remove it from the other menu first before insertingĢ2:01:58 Dbg plugin_dir: /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/PlugIns/wireshark The Terminal spit out the following, and then WireShark launched on my desktop:

Guess what? I don't know why, but it worked. Then I came across an online comment where someone stated that they typed "sudo wireshark" in the Terminal. So I conducted some quick research on the web and discovered that I had to enter "sudo ln -s /opt/X11 /usr/X11" in the Terminal in order to restore a link an X11 link that Yosemite breaks. In the initialization window, WireShark would get as far as "Loading module preferences", or about three quarters of the way done, and in the bottom of the window it would say "Please wait while Wireshark is initializing." and then freeze-up. Regardless of which version I used, WireShark keep freezing up during the initialization process. I made repeated attempts to use both WireShark 1.12.4 and 1.99.3, but without success. Some of this has been shared before, but there is a little added twist at the end which worked for me. This may possibly be of help to other new WireShark users who are having trouble getting WireShark to launch in Yosemite. Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list, which eases analysis.Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time.Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly.

