Re: Frozen or locked screen?

[Pandurangan R S]

Unfortunately, I had killed the screen process accidentally. So I
cannot provide the strace now :(

I will post the related straces if get into the same trouble again.
Thanks for your help.

-- Pandu

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Juergen Weigert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 08 18:59:04 +0530, Pandurangan R S 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
>
> Process id 6866 is your screen master process.
> Please show a trace of this one.
>
>        cheers,
>                Jw.
>
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