Re: sort 2.0.11 core dump

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Randell <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a problem with 'sort' core dumping on a certain file (for the
> most part 'sort' seems to be performing normally).
>
> I've attached an strace of the command generated with:
>
>   strace -o sort-2.0.11-trace sort sort-killer
>
> I've not attached the input file as it's 35M (although is compresses
> well with bzip2 to 3.2M, so I can send it to you if you need it to try
> and reproduce the problem).
>
> The system that this is running on is a newly installed RedHat 7.1 x86
> system, upgraded to kernel 2.4.7 SMP, 2x 1GHz PIII CPUs, 2Gb RAM (so
> 4Gb HIGHMEM support is enabled), the source file is resident on a
> reiserfs file system with more than 36Gb free.
>
> Here are some system details (if you need more details to help
> diagnose this problem please don't hesitate to contact me):
>
>   # sort --version
>   sort (GNU textutils) 2.0.11

Thanks for the report.
Would you please try to reproduce it with the latest test release?
There have been significant changes in sort since 2.0.11.

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.14.tar.gz

If you still get the failure, please point me to the bzip2'd input file.