perldoc dumps core

gerd4000 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi I'm using archlinux 4.1.6-1.

perldoc -V gives:
Perldoc v3.25, under perl v5.022000 for linux

perldoc -D gives:

Ending switch processing.  Args are [$_] with 0 errors.
Pagers: /usr/bin/less -Rmorelesspgviewcat/usr/bin/core_perl/perldoc =>
+ Pod::Perldoc v3.25

Formatter class Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm version 3.25 successfully loaded!
Will format with the class Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm
Searching for $_
Looking for $_ in /usr/bin/core_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/sha
+re/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor
+_perl /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl /usr/share/perl5/core_perl . /usr/loca
+l/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /usr/lib/jvm/default/bin /usr/bin/site
+_perl /usr/bin/vendor_perl /usr/bin/core_perl /home/xxxx
No documentation found for "$_".
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But perldoc -q sort or perldoc perldoc give:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

any hint?

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Re: perldoc dumps core by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 26, 2015 at 09:57 UTC
My guess is that you manually installed modules using the `cpan` tool into your vendor Perl. The vendor Perl belongs to the vendor and you should only install modules into the vendor Perl by using the vendor tools (like `apt-get`, `yum` or `rpm`). If the vendor upgraded some library that `perldoc` depends on, you might now have conflicting versions of the library or libraries that depend on the upgraded library. Maybe it already is enough to remove `/home/xxxx` from the search path (whatever that search path is).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: perldoc dumps core by Anonymous Monk on Aug 26, 2015 at 09:19 UTC
Try to see whats being loaded `perl -MDevel::Modlist -S perldoc perldoc` Try to see the last thing that happens before segfault `perl -dTrace -S perldoc perldoc`	[reply]