1) Run: echo `perl -e '$x="A"x300; print "search $x\n";'` >>/etc/resolv.conf 2) Now run linuxconf and go to DNS Configuration. 3) Linuxconf core dumps
This particular overflow (and a few others) should be fixed in linuxconf-1.17r1 and later, which is now in Raw Hide. Thanks for the heads-up.