Package: screen Version: 5.0.1-1.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, The default socket directory for screen has been changed from /run/screen/S-$USER/ to $HOME/.screen. After updating screen, I was surprised to find I could not reattach to existing screen sessions: $ screen -list No Sockets found in /home/perelman/.screen. ... unless I explicitly specify $SCREENDIR: $ SCREENDIR=/run/screen/S-perelman screen -list There are screens on: [...] 6 Sockets in /run/screen/S-perelman. I did a little digging into the version control history and there's no apparent change to do this and https://salsa.debian.org/debian/screen/-/blob/master/debian/rules?ref_type=heads includes the line "SCREEN_CONFIGURE=--with-socket-dir=/run/screen", so I do not think this change was intentional. I did find a RedHat bug reporting the same issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2375347 which reports this can be fixed by adding "--enable-socket-dir" to the configure flags. It looks like the issue is possibly that https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/src/configure.ac?id=6931ba07ca1646df8dee85485f9867b23b34fcf1 fixed a bug that "--enable-socket-dir" was accidentally not required due to a bashism in the configure script. Building locally, I have confirmed the following patch fixes the issue for me: diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 7733fec..9565c8c 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ ROOT_UDEB := $(CURDIR)/debian/screen-udeb TTYGROUP := 5 # Common configure options for .deb and .udeb SCREEN_CONFIGURE=--with-socket-dir=/run/screen \ + --enable-socket-dir \ --with-pty-mode=0600 \ --with-pty-group=${TTYGROUP} \ --enable-rxvt_osc \ -- Package-specific info: File Existence and Permissions ------------------------------ drwxr-xr-x 47 root root 1480 May 10 22:06 /run lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 2 2011 /var/run -> /run -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 482016 Apr 21 13:53 /usr/bin/screen -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Jun 21 2017 /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 8 2015 /lib/systemd/system/screen-cleanup.service -> /dev/null -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1222 Apr 2 2017 /etc/init.d/screen-cleanup lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 29 2023 /etc/rcS.d/S15screen-cleanup -> ../init.d/screen-cleanup File contents ------------- ### /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf ______________________________________________________________________ d /run/screen 1777 root utmp ______________________________________________________________________ -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages screen depends on: ii debianutils 5.23.2 ii libc6 2.42-15 ii libpam0g 1.7.0-5+b1 ii libtinfo6 6.6+20251231-1 screen recommends no packages. Versions of packages screen suggests: pn byobu | screenie | iselect <none> pn ncurses-term <none> -- debconf-show failed
