From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030530 Description of problem: This problem occurs when using the R language (http://www.r-project.org/) console. This was initially reported when using R under Kconsole when typing Shift-Enter (https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-June/026906.html) and is consistently reproducable there. Later research (https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-June/026951.html) was able to reproduce this under all consoles and appears to be associated with prior readline bugs that have been reported, where meta character sequences send applications into an infinite loop. The error message that is generated is: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x400dd7fe in _rl_dispatch_subseq () from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so.4 Several patches for readline 4.3 are available here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-4.3-patches with the first patch: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-4.3-patches/readline43-001 addressing this particular issue. The gentleman that initially reported this bug has generated an updated RPM using the above patch (https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-June/026959.html) resulting in resolution of the issue, so it would seem that RH would need to do the same. Note that this bug has also been reproduced under RH 8.0 using readline 4.3 as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): readline-4.3-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Running R under Kconsole, type SHIFT-ENTER 2. Under other consoles, type ESC-O-M (that's the letter 'O', not zero) Actual Results: Segmentation Fault