Could this be a 64 bit issue? It does NOT fail for me: paul@stromboli ~ $ xmlstarlet fo < /dev/null -:1.1: Document is empty
^ Start tag expected, '<' not found ^ paul@stromboli ~ $ apt-cache policy xmlstarlet xmlstarlet: Installed: 1.2.1-1 Candidate: 1.2.1-1 Version table: *** 1.2.1-1 0 500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878246 Title: xmlstarlet crashed with SIGSEGV in xmlTextReaderGetParserLineNumber() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xmlstarlet/+bug/878246/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs