Description of problem: Testing https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798541 $ perl -e 'print "1","A"x50000000,"\r\n\r\n"' > /tmp/test.txt $ join -i /tmp/test.txt /tmp/test.txt 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: join -i /tmp/test.txt /tmp/test.txt crash_function: keycmp executable: /usr/bin/join kernel: 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 uid: 1000 Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (2 frames) #0 keycmp at join.c:527 #1 system_join at join.c:913
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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 ***