Description of problem: Testing https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538 $ perl -e 'print "1","A"x50000000,"\r\n\r\n"' | sort -d Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ rpm -q coreutils coreutils-8.15-9.fc17.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component: coreutils-8.15-9.fc17 Additional info: backtrace_rating: 4 cmdline: sort -d crash_function: keycompare_mb executable: /usr/bin/sort kernel: 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 uid: 1000 Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (6 frames) #0 keycompare_mb at sort.c:3213 #1 compare at sort.c:3278 #2 mergelines_node at sort.c:4006 #3 merge_loop at sort.c:4091 #4 sortlines at sort.c:4208 #5 sort at sort.c:4481 Potential duplicate: bug 902917
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I believe you should update your system, this was already fixed by coreutils-8.15-10.fc17 (Released Feb 1st) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902917 . Closing duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 902917 ***