wireshark showing error dialogue on start

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I have build wireshark-2.4.2 on ubuntu 16.04 machine. Build and install was successful without any warning or Error. But after starting wireshark I'm getting following error.

  • With root privileged,

    $ sudo wireshark

    I'm getting following error message on wireshark window.

    Lua: Error during loading: [string "/usr/local/share/wireshark/init.lua"]:44: dofile has been disabled due to running Wireshark as superuser. See https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges for help in running Wireshark as an unprivileged user.

  • as normal user

    $ wireshark

    Than I'm getting following error

    You don't have permission to read the file "init.lua".

    Error loading table 'SMI Paths': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'SMI Modules': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'GeoIP Database Paths': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'OID Tables': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Custom BootP/DHCP Options (Excl. suboptions)': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Force Decode by Channel': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Decryption Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Node bodytypes': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'DMP Security Classifications': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'DPS Security Mode Templates': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'DPS Session Keys': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'DPS Identity Secrets': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'DTLS RSA Keylist': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Device-Specific Profiles': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'NodeID-Specific Profiles': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'ESS Category Attributes': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Endpoint and Channel Configuration': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Custom HTTP Header Fields': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'WEP and WPA Decryption Keys': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Static Addresses': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Keys': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Custom IMF headers': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'ESP SAs': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'IKEv1 Decryption Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'IKEv2 Decryption Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'K12 Protocols': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'LBMPDM-TCP tag definitions': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'LBMR tag definitions': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'LBT-RM tag definitions': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'LBT-RU tag definitions': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'LBT-TCP tag definitions': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Custom LDAP AttributeValue types': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Static LCID -> drb Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'PDCP UE security keys': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'PRES Users Context List': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Kind-ID Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'SCCP Users Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Chunk types for the statistics dialog': Permission denied`

    Error loading table 'Custom SIP Header Fields': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'SIP authorization users': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'SNMP Users': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'SNMP Enterprise Specific Trap Types': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'SSL Decrypt': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'NM User Data Fields Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'User DLTs Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Bitstream Channel Table': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Pre-configured Keys': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'ZigBee GP Security Keys': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Display Filter Macros': Permission denied

    Error loading table 'Expert Info Severity Level Configuration': Permission denied

    Can't open global preferences file "/usr/local/share/wireshark/preferences": Permission denied.

    Could not open global disabled protocols file "/usr/local/share/wireshark/disabled_protos": Permission denied.

    Could not open global enabled protocols file "/usr/local/share/wireshark/enabled_protos": Permission denied.

    Could not open global heuristic dissectors file "/usr/local/share/wireshark/heuristic_protos": Permission denied.

    Could not open your capture filter file "/usr/local/share/wireshark/cfilters": Permission denied.

    Could not open global filter file "/usr/local/share/wireshark/colorfilters": Permission denied.

I have tried with following post but not succeed [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/454734/running-wireshark-lua-error-during-loading [2] https://osqa-ask.wireshark.org/questions/7976/wireshark-setup-linux-for-nonroot-user [3] https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges [4] https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2048826.html [5] https://osqa-ask.wireshark.org/questions/42982/wireshark-1996-for-mac-osx-10103-can-t-open-preferences-file

Does any one have idea What's going on wrong.

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luaubuntu-16.04wireshark

1 Answers

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Problem is solved by changing parmission of wireshark files located at /usr/local/share/wireshark.

Log in as a root,

$ chmod -R 777 /usr/local/share/wireshark

Now from non-root user I'm able to run wireshark without any error popup. :)