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has caused the Debian Bug report #83758,
regarding death of main screen causes lockup
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Package: screen
Version: 3.9.5-8
Severity: wishlist
To reproduce:
* Start screen eg by typing `screen'.
* Say `ls' in the window to get something to copy.
* Say C-a [ to get into copy mode.
* Move with vi keys to a line of ls output.
* Say ^ SPACE $ SPACE to copy the line of output.
+ screen says `Copied 16 characters into buffer' or some such.
* Say C-a > to try to write it to a file.
+ The main screen process will now die with a segmentation fault.
* Try typing something at the screen. It's completely dead.
NB that this bug report is *NOT* about the crash which causes the
problem. This bug is the fact that *when* the main screen process
crashes - and presumably whenever it does so - the `client' screen
which is talking to the user's terminal becomes irretrievably locked
up. I think this is poor error behaviour and should be improved.
Ian.
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Hi,
This bug has been open for over 10 years, with no further discussion or
followup.
A previous maintainer was unable to reproduce.
Closing as stale/unreproducible.
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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