Hi, thanks for the reply! I tried adding a =head TITLE element as in your first example (with blank line before and after), and I'm still getting the same behavior. Crashola. The podchecker also said this modified file is OK, as with the original file.

It seems like this problem is likely something environment or system related. It's odd, though, that the same problem is occurring on two rather different systems (CentOS 6 and OSX Mojave).
About the Mac, BTW, I didn't run strace on that machine, only on the CentOS machine. The Mac doesn't have strace on it; it does have dtrace but that requires elevated privilege to run, which I don't think I have.

In reply to Re^2: Mysterious crash of perldoc by Textorix
in thread Mysterious crash of perldoc by Textorix

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