Re: screen refusing to reattach

[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...

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
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| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:29:29PM -0500, Buddy Burden wrote:
> Jeremy,
> 
> >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.
> 
> You mean not just killing off the screen -x process itself, but finding the 
> parent shell and killing that instead (or in addition)?  I haven't tried 
> that yet, but I definitely will next time.
> 
>               -- Buddy