Actually, when it happened to me a second time a little while later, 'screen
-x [session name]' would not work. I just had to wait for something (don't
know exactly what) to time out.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Samir Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just ran into the same issue, and 'screen -x [session name]' worked
> perfectly. Thanks for the tip!
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Samir Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> No, I haven't. I'll try it the next time I encounter this problem. Turns
>> out that when I let it sit for about 10 minutes, the session finally
>> appears.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:21 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I use screen -x to attach to an attached session, have you tried this?
>>>
>>> On 02/07/2008, Samir Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I was using screen, and my session was disconnected while outputting a
>>> lot
>>> > of text (presumably due to a router choking---the upwidth for the
>>> remote box
>>> > is pretty low, only about 13 kB/s). When the line was back up, I
>>> attempted
>>> > to resume my screen session, but it was already attached (presumably
>>> because
>>> > the connection was dropped unexpectedly). However, none of the commands
>>> I
>>> > try, including screen -r [pid], screen -d [pid], screen -R [pid],
>>> screen -D
>>> > [pid], screen -rD [pid], screen -RD [pid], screen -rd [pid], and screen
>>> -Rd
>>> > [pid] will reattach this session. I tried running an strace on the pid,
>>> and
>>> > it says that it's still outputting text. After waiting a while, I
>>> somehow
>>> > managed to get the sesion to reattach---I'm not sure how. The problem
>>> > occured again shortly afterwards, and I can't figure out how to
>>> actually fix
>>> > it. Any ideas?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Samir Unni
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>
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