Re: Frozen or locked screen?

[Pandurangan R S]

> Whenever this happens to me, I just run 'screen -x <session name>' and wait
> for 10-15 minutes for it to successfully connect.

I waited for around 30 mins hoping that i will get attached to the
screen, but that didn't happen :(

> The best thing to do would
> be to avoid sending too much data over a low bandwidth connection.

My desktop and the host on which i run screen are within a LAN.

Thanks for the help.

-- Pandu

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Samir Unni <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whenever this happens to me, I just run 'screen -x <session name>' and wait
> for 10-15 minutes for it to successfully connect. The best thing to do would
> be to avoid sending too much data over a low bandwidth connection. I try to
> prevent this as often as possible, but sometimes I forget to filter the
> output or something. I don't know of any permanent solution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Samir Unni
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Pandurangan R S <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My screen looks to be frozen. screen -x (or screen -d) also gets stuck.
>>
>> I recently saw a thread which talks about accidentally locking the
>> screen and thinking it is frozen.
>> Is the case with my screen now? If so, how can i unlock it?
>>
>>
>> If I strace the screen process, I observe the following. Any hints?
>>
>> Process 15342 attached - interrupt to quit
>> pause()                                 = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be
>> restarted)
>> --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
>> sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
>> alarm(0)                                = 0
>> kill(6866, SIG_0)                       = 0
>> rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x806a540, [], 0}, {0x806a540, [], 0}, 8) = 0
>> alarm(15)                               = 0
>> pause()                                 = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be
>> restarted)
>> --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
>> sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
>> alarm(0)                                = 0
>> kill(6866, SIG_0)                       = 0
>> rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x806a540, [], 0}, {0x806a540, [], 0}, 8) = 0
>> alarm(15)                               = 0
>> pause(
>>
>> Thanks
>> Pandu
>>
>>
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