All, This was unexpected (to me), but may be normal. Canceling "zypper se" with [ctrl + c] results in a Segmentation Fault. E.g. $ zse octabe ^C^CSegmentation fault (I meant to type octave, but had a typo so I canceled the search) Shouldn't the interrupt handler in zypper handle this in a more graceful way? The 'zse' alias for users is: alias zse='sudo zypper se -s' (not sure whether that would make any difference, but included anyway) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.