Yes, it has been fixed.

Fedora Core 8, Doom 2, latest Vavoom, texture packs and models. Whenever Pain Elementals appear, if they aren't dispatched very quickly, causes a crash to the Desktop. Occurs in all levels.

Uh oh, I remember this bug. I think my first post here was about a very similar bug.

Yeah it's the same bug you reported. It was claimed it had been fixed but that's obviously not the case. Wouldn't mind a update on this issue as I'm currently saved in a room with two of the buggers.

Janis did fix that bug (in the development version) after I made the report. I think he was changing some of the class names at the time or something, and the PE was trying to play a sound file that didn't exist, which crashed the game. I think this all happened right around the time the previous stable release was made, so it may have effected that release too... not sure though, the bug may have appeared in the development version after that version was released.. In any case it was fixed...