Wireshark not working on MacOS

[bruno-telstar]

Hello All!

I'm trying to test the quantum safe Wireshark on my Mac, but it is not working. I've built the container and installed XQuartz, but when I try to run the container I get this error message:

** (wireshark:1) 12:42:32.119831 [GUI WARNING] -- could not connect to display /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.yYUifzpdJT/org.xquartz:0
** (wireshark:1) 12:42:32.120508 [GUI ERROR] -- This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

I ran the following run command:

docker run --rm -it --net=host -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix oqs-wireshark

If someone could help me with this, I appreciate.

Bruno

[SWilson4]

Pinging @hayyaaf, who kindly volunteered to maintain the Wireshark demo.

[alraddady]

Hello Bruno,

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to solve the issue, but I will look into it after one to two weeks due to time constraints.

Thank you for your understanding!

Best regards,
Khalid

[bruno-telstar]

Hi Khalid!

No worries, just let me know if you have any information.

Thanks!

[alraddady]

Of course, I'll do that.

[alraddady]

Sorry for the delay. Could you try the following steps to run the quantum-safe Wireshark Docker container on macOS?

1. Ensure XQuartz is Configured

Please ensure that "Allow connections from network clients" is enabled under XQuartz Preferences > Security.

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2. Allow Connections from the Host

Run the following command to permit connections from the local machine:

xhost +

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3. Set the DISPLAY Environment Variable

Ensure the DISPLAY environment variable is correctly set before running the container:

export DISPLAY=host.docker.internal:0

Unfortunately, it seems that every time you open XQuartz, you need to run both xhost + and export DISPLAY=host.docker.internal:0 again.

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4. Run the Docker Container

Start Wireshark with the necessary environment variables:

docker run --rm -it --net=host \
  -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \
  -e QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb \
  -e XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/runtime-root \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
  oqs-wireshark

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I will open a PR to resolve some warning messages and update the documentation accordingly. The new PR will include the necessary environment variables to prevent these warnings.

Let me know if you encounter any other issues.

[bruno-telstar]

Do you think I should try to download the image from Dockerhub?

[baentsch]

Do you think I should try to download the image from Dockerhub?

That would give us a solid base line and is a core reason for publishing images to docker hub (exclude any potential local build setup errors), so Yes, please do.

[bruno-telstar]

OK, just pull the image from the repository and tried again:

brunoribeiro@MacBook-Pro % docker pull openquantumsafe/wireshark
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from openquantumsafe/wireshark
5b17151e9710: Pull complete
eaa8d6a9774e: Pull complete
8d9943bf4b0c: Pull complete
b52af93661e7: Pull complete
b64014da884e: Pull complete
79bbd2a64d88: Pull complete
ad1b6947f730: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:edcd1e4e1ef12431c02953f5ff780f33fa4c7ef95aa8e2cb25699bc7ae1f28a3
Status: Downloaded newer image for openquantumsafe/wireshark:latest
docker.io/openquantumsafe/wireshark:latest
brunoribeiro@MacBook % docker run --net=host --privileged --env="DISPLAY" --volume="$HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority:rw" openquantumsafe/wireshark

** (wireshark:7) 14:46:00.132770 [GUI WARNING] -- could not connect to display /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.R8SlSNsMDP/org.xquartz:0
** (wireshark:7) 14:46:00.132910 [GUI ERROR] -- This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: minimal, vkkhrdisplay, linuxfb, offscreen, xcb.

** (wireshark:7) Aborting on fatal log level exception
Aborted (core dumped)

And xterm is running:

[alraddady]

Could you please provide a detailed step-by-step walkthrough of the process you’re following to run Wireshark on macOS using Docker, starting from the beginning? Include the complete terminal logs for each step, as well as the output of echo $DISPLAY and any relevant environment variables. The Docker command logs alone (as shared earlier) are not providing sufficient information to diagnose the issue. This will help us better understand and resolve the problem with Wireshark not working on your macOS setup.

[bruno-telstar]

Hi Khalid! OK, I'll do that and post the results here. Thanks!