running wireshark "Lua: Error during loading"
Solution 1
That is because (I presume) you are running wireshark as root
From the link you were given in the message:
You need to run Wireshark or TShark on an account with sufficient privileges to capture, or need to give the account on which you're running Wireshark or TShark sufficient privileges to capture. The way this is done differs from operating system to operating system.
To be secure (at least in a way), it is recommended that even an administrator should always run in an account with (limited) user privileges, and only start processes that really need the administrator privileges. The Security page provides explanations why this is a good idea.
Setting network privileges for dumpcap
Ensure your linux kernel and filesystem supports File Capabilities and also you have installed necessary tools.
"setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap"
Start Wireshark as non-root and ensure you see the list of interfaces and can do live capture.
so ...
sudo setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap
don't forget to add the user to the wireshark group
sudo usermod -aG wireshark $USER
and (!) logo-off and log-on again. Then run wireshark as a non-root user.
Solution 2
I found a simple fix for this.
- Go to
usr/share/wireshark
. - Open
init.lua
with a text editor. - Change
disable_lua = false
todisable_lua = true
.
Solution 3
That is because you didn't add user to wireshark group, So:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common
Say YES to the message box.This adds a wireshark group.Then add user to the group by typing
sudo adduser $USER wireshark
Then restart your machine and open wireshark.
Run
wireshark
and it works good luck ;)
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Comments
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Mohammad Reza Rezwani over 1 year
By running wireshark in 14.04 I got this error What should I do to solve this?
Lua: Error during loading: [string "/usr/share/wireshark/init.lua"]:46: dofile has been disabled due to running Wireshark as superuser. See http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges for help in running Wireshark as an unprivileged user.
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Mohammad Reza Rezwani about 10 yearsYes, I run that with sudo.
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Mohammad Reza Rezwani about 10 yearsI wrote this : sudo "setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap" and I got this : sudo: setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap: command not found
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Panther about 10 yearstry
sudo setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap
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j0h almost 9 yearsThere is some documentation in the folder: /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/ in a readme file. It goes on about some other non-root options, and dependencies for other tasks you may wish to complete.