Re: screen refusing to reattach

2005-03-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Yes, kill off the shell associated with the pty/tty running "screen". I found that killing off screen by itself doesn't cut it... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Admi

Re: screen refusing to reattach

2005-03-25 Thread Juergen Weigert
On Mar 25, 05 07:11:37 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I can confirm this behaviour. I've experienced it in BSD, Solaris, and > Linux. I believe it has something to do with the tty already being > allocated somehow. > > The solution is to kill off the shell process which had previously > run (an

Re: screen refusing to reattach

2005-03-25 Thread abez
Here's the recipe I used: 1. SSH into the machine 2. Start screen 3. Spew Random garbage to the terminal 4. Close the terminal (with the shell and ssh client running inside of it) 5. Reconnect via SSH and try to reconnect to Screen The screen commands I used to start and reconnect were:

Re: screen refusing to reattach

2005-03-25 Thread Buddy Burden
Guys, This happens to me sometimes as well and I find it just as annoying as everyone else. It used to be pretty rare, but seems to be happening more often lately, for whatever reason. Neither screen -d nor screen -D nor screen -DD seems to do anything (other than hang). Can't speak to whethe

Re: screen refusing to reattach

2005-03-25 Thread abez
Can you do me a favor and apply the patches found at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=11610 And see if the problem persists? abram On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Eric Smith wrote: > Ok, this has caused me enough inconvenience so I will > finally ask about it. Every now and then

Re: screen refusing to reattach

2005-03-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
I can confirm this behaviour. I've experienced it in BSD, Solaris, and Linux. I believe it has something to do with the tty already being allocated somehow. The solution is to kill off the shell process which had previously run (and in some cases, still is running) screen -x or screen -r. I wro

Re: screen refusing to reattach

2005-03-25 Thread Phil!Gregory
* Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-25 15:23 +0100]: > Ok, this has caused me enough inconvenience so I will finally ask about > it. Every now and then screen freezes and if I try to reattach the > seassion elsewhere, the command `screen -x' just hangs. > > Sometimes killing off the child p

screen refusing to reattach

2005-03-25 Thread Eric Smith
Ok, this has caused me enough inconvenience so I will finally ask about it. Every now and then screen freezes and if I try to reattach the seassion elsewhere, the command `screen -x' just hangs. Sometimes killing off the child processes seems to work, other times not. Usually after many hours t