Re: Signal 11 in sort

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Antonomasia) wrote:
> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
>
>> Since I can't reproduce the problem with libc-2.3.2,
>> using several different locales, I suspect it's not
>> a problem with the coreutils package.
>>
>> What version of libc are you using.
>> When you run `locale', what does it print?
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep libc
> glibc-2.2-12_imnx_7
>
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US

So now you have two variables you can tweak in an attempt
to determine which part of your system is provoking the failure:
the locale and the version of your C library.

Try first with

  env LC_ALL=C sort ...

then, consider upgrading to a newer libc (easier said than done, I know).