Hi. I am running screen 4.00.02 on a Linux 2.6.20 machine that I'm ssh'ed in to. I use screen -x to attach to a session with windows running programs like mutt, lynx, etc. I sometimes encounter a problem that has lately become annoyingly frequent.
With no apparent pattern, one of my screen windows will suddenly lock up solid, as though I'd pressed ^AS (but I didn't, of course). I can switch to other windows and use them normally, but I've never been able to coax a window to come back to life from the frozen state. Killing it with ^AK is the only option. It happened again just now, and I ran strace on the screen process that was the parent of the lynx I was using at the time (I was just pressing the space bar to page through a long document). I noticed that screen saw my keypress, and write a space to fd 7, which /proc/*/fd told me was attached to /dev/ptmx. I separately straced the screen process, but it didn't see any input at all. This suggests that something went wrong with the connection between screen and lynx, but I don't know what, or how to investigate further. (Note: I have encountered this problem on a number of machines, with different kernels, and very likely different versions of screen too.) Has anyone else encountered this problem? Does anyone have suggestions about how I can try to track it down? It's driving me nuts! Thank you. -- ams _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
