GNU screen crashes with certain options and terminal sizes

[joedavidson]

Binary package hint: screen

melonhead@grimace:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
melonhead@grimace:~$ apt-cache policy screen
screen:
  Installed: 4.0.3-11
  Candidate: 4.0.3-11
  Version table:
 *** 4.0.3-11 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
melonhead@grimace:~$ screen --version
Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06

To reproduce, create a .screenrc file with the following lines:
hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%w%=%m"

Start a screen session
Resize terminal emulator to be only 0 or 1 line tall.

Result: screen crashes and all windows in the session are lost

Ubuntu repos have GNU screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06
Latest release version is 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06

Bug does not occur when using 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06 built from source.

[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

Confirmed that this bug still remains in latest upstream git sources, and added tracking upstream

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

Seems to be fixed upstream. It's marked as "fixed in 4.1.0", so I expect that we can expect a new screen upstream release more or less soon. Yay! :-)