screen occasionally crashes when starting emacs from mutt

[David Edmondson]

Binary package hint: screen

Occasionally when I hit 'r' in mutt to reply to a message, the terminal display will clear
(apart from the list of windows at the bottom) but emacs (my chosen editor) does
not start. From another terminal it appears that screen has died.

Will try to collect more data, core dump, etc.

Here is how things end up:
: aw; ps -ef | grep screen
dme 18363 18346 0 13:04 pts/2 00:00:00 grep screen
dme 24482 23576 0 10:05 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/bin/screen.real -c /home/dme/.screenrc -AxRR
dme 24483 24482 0 10:05 ? 00:00:03 [screen.real] <defunct>
: aw;

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: screen 4.0.3-11ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: screen
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[David Edmondson (dme)]

This also (occasionally) happens with 32 bit Intrepid.

[David Edmondson (dme)]

Caught it, though the trace doesn't look very useful.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007f7e0a9b7d83 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0 0x00007f7e0a9b7d83 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007f7e0a9b8276 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x0000000000416148 in ?? ()
#3 0x000000000041620f in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000417af5 in ?? ()
#5 0x000000000040d4e1 in ?? ()
#6 0x0000000000410dff in ?? ()
#7 0x000000000041de2b in ?? ()
#8 0x000000000044591b in ?? ()
#9 0x00000000004093ad in ?? ()
#10 0x00007f7e0a95c5a6 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#11 0x00000000004036d9 in ?? ()
#12 0x00007fff1375fdc8 in ?? ()
#13 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#14 0x0000000000000004 in ?? ()
#15 0x00007fff13760956 in ?? ()
#16 0x00007fff1376096b in ?? ()
#17 0x00007fff1376096e in ?? ()
#18 0x00007fff13760982 in ?? ()
#19 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

[David Edmondson (dme)]

Rebuilt with symbols, trying again to reproduce.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

Possibly related to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=31494 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666052

[James Page (james-page)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. 9.04 reached EOL on October 23, 2010.

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