Subject: screen sometimes not reattaching
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/26/2007 07:52:05
Hi!

Lately, screen started misbehaving -- it sometimes doesn't reattach
detached sessions. I'm using 4.99.25/amd64.

I'm not quite sure what I have to do to reproduce this, but I
currently have that state on one of my machines.

# ll /tmp/screens/S-wiz/
total 4
drwx------  2 wiz   users  512 Jul 25 10:01 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Jul 23 13:53 ..
prwx------  1 wiz   users    0 Jul 26 00:34 28211.ttyp0.hiro
srw-------  1 wiz   users    0 Jul 25 08:20 467.ttyp0.hiro

The 28211 one is a session I can still use, but I can't attach to the
467 one.

From ps output:
root       467  0.0  0.0  1372  2324 ?     IWs  Mon01PM 0:00.00 SCREEN -d -RR -e^zz (screen-4.0.3)
root     28211  0.0  0.3  1680  2812 ?     Ss   10:01AM 0:00.00 SCREEN -d -RR (screen-4.0.3)
wiz      29758  0.0  0.2   528  1764 ttyp5 Ss+  12:34AM 0:00.00 screen -d -RR -e^Zz (screen-4.0.3)

# screen -r 467.ttyp0.hiro
There is no screen to be resumed matching 467.ttyp0.hiro.

Any ideas what's happening here?
 Thomas