title: Error while starting Bro
body: <p>I am trying to install Bro on my machine running Ubuntu 16.04 and I am facing the following problem on bro start. It has multiple errors and kindly assist on how to resolve them.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[BroControl] &gt; start
  starting bro (was crashed) ...
  bro terminated immediately after starting; check output with "diag"
  [BroControl] &gt; diag
  [bro]
  
  Bro 2.4.1
  Linux 4.4.0-36-generic
  
  
  ==== No reporter.log
  
  ==== stderr.log
      fatal error: problem with interface eth0 (eth0: SIOCETHTOOL(ETHTOOL_GET_TS_INFO) ioctl failed: No such device)
  
  ==== stdout.log
  max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
  data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
  virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
  core file size          (blocks, -c) unlimited
  
  ==== .cmdline
  -i eth0 -U .status -p broctl -p broctl-live -p standalone -p local -p bro local.bro broctl broctl/standalone broctl/auto
  
  ==== .env_vars
  PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/share/broctl/scripts:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
  BROPATH=/var/spool/bro/installed-scripts-do-not-touch/site::/var/spool/bro/installed-scripts-do-not-touch/auto:/usr/share/bro:/usr/share/bro/policy:/usr/share/bro/site
  CLUSTER_NODE=
  
  ==== .status
  TERMINATED [atexit]
  
  ==== No prof.log
  
  ==== No packet_filter.log
  
  ==== No loaded_scripts.log
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My ifconfig shows up this : </p>
  
  <pre><code>root@anuvrattiku-Inspiron-13-7368:/etc# ifconfig -a
  lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
        inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
        inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
        UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
        RX packets:6594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:6594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 
        RX bytes:950826 (950.8 KB)  TX bytes:950826 (950.8 KB)
  
  wlp1s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 68:07:15:23:f2:f8  
        inet addr:10.250.39.91  Bcast:10.250.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
        inet6 addr: fe80::274a:2cde:a0c8:1131/64 Scope:Link
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
        RX packets:271804 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:49076 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
        RX bytes:342567344 (342.5 MB)  TX bytes:6733501 (6.7 MB)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>