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has caused the Debian Bug report #1138176,
regarding screen -p (number) -X stuff "foo" no longer works
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1138176: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1138176
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: screen
Version: 5.0.1-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I have a program which runs in one window of my screen, monitoring certain
parameters.
When those parameters reach certain values, it executes a command in another
program, running in
another window of the same screen.
So if the windows are 1 and 2, then the program in screen 1 will execute a
command
screen -p 2 -X stuff "some commands". Program in window 2 receives those
commands as if
they came from the keyboard. Very nice.
This worked for several years, no problems.
However, recently (days ago), this started failing: now whenever I run screen
-p (number),
I get an error saying "could not find pre-select window".
Note: I have only one screen process running. This does not seem to be about
the command being
sent to the wrong screen session.
Restarting screen did not bring any change.
-- Package-specific info:
File Existence and Permissions
------------------------------
drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 1380 May 28 19:08 /run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 27 2022 /var/run -> /run
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 482016 May 16 01:00 /usr/bin/screen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119 May 27 2022 /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 27 2022
/lib/systemd/system/screen-cleanup.service -> /dev/null
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1222 Feb 18 2021 /etc/init.d/screen-cleanup
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 27 2022 /etc/rcS.d/S01screen-cleanup ->
../init.d/screen-cleanup
File contents
-------------
### /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf
______________________________________________________________________
# This file is generated by /var/lib/dpkg/info/screen.postinst upon package
configuration
d /run/screen 1777 root utmp
______________________________________________________________________
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.17.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
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 2.42-16
ii libpam0g 1.7.0-5+b2
ii libtinfo6 6.6+20251231-1+b1
screen recommends no packages.
Versions of packages screen suggests:
pn byobu | screenie | iselect <none>
ii ncurses-term 6.6+20251231-1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
tags 1138176 + unreproducible
thanks
No response received. Closing as unreproducible.
Test written and included in 5.0.2-1.
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