Comment 4 for bug 375625

I haven't upgraded to maverick yet, but I did recently switch to use the "awesome" window manager, and that has dramatically increased the frequency that I trigger this bug (triggering the bug seems to be a matter of switching back and forth between a high and low column count while displaying vim or a similar program). I noticed several things:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26742 was fixed in September of 2009, but a major release hasn't been made since then and the patches don't seem to have ever made their way into a minor release.

From another LP bug report, in Maverick, matching my details almost exactly (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/656396) I gather that this patch hasn't yet made it into Debian or Ubuntu. I suspect that https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/369184 is also related.

From my recent /var/log/kern.log*:

Oct 6 11:32:50 arrakis kernel: [22213.433002] screen[5598]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f3cb06481c3 sp 00007fffad6107c0 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f3cb05ce000+17a000]
Oct 6 21:23:59 arrakis kernel: [57682.092950] screen[782]: segfault at 18 ip 00007ff2fff3f1c3 sp 00007fff16ffd460 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7ff2ffec5000+17a000]
Oct 7 11:20:36 arrakis kernel: [103639.433370] screen[3829]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f73d794b1c3 sp 00007fff267f6bd0 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f73d78d1000+17a000]
Oct 7 15:21:35 arrakis kernel: [118098.062706] screen[30186]: segfault at 18 ip 00007faf9e4c21c3 sp 00007fff079d5830 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7faf9e448000+17a000]
Oct 11 13:19:09 arrakis kernel: [284508.558063] screen[9936]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f5f72ba01c3 sp 00007fff0ed43750 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f5f72b26000+17a000]
Oct 11 14:00:50 arrakis kernel: [287009.793219] screen[4099]: segfault at 18 ip 00007fa5ee7da1c3 sp 00007fff058cc710 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7fa5ee760000+17a000]