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regarding screen: socket directory changed from /var/run/screen to $HOME/.screen
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Package: screen
Version: 5.0.1-1.1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
The default socket directory for screen has been changed from
/run/screen/S-$USER/ to $HOME/.screen. After updating screen, I was surprised
to find I could not reattach to existing screen sessions:
$ screen -list
No Sockets found in /home/perelman/.screen.
... unless I explicitly specify $SCREENDIR:
$ SCREENDIR=/run/screen/S-perelman screen -list
There are screens on:
[...]
6 Sockets in /run/screen/S-perelman.
I did a little digging into the version control history and there's no apparent
change to do this and
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/screen/-/blob/master/debian/rules?ref_type=heads
includes the line "SCREEN_CONFIGURE=--with-socket-dir=/run/screen", so I do not
think this change was intentional. I did find a RedHat bug reporting the same
issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2375347 which reports this
can be fixed by adding "--enable-socket-dir" to the configure flags. It looks
like the issue is possibly that
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/src/configure.ac?id=6931ba07ca1646df8dee85485f9867b23b34fcf1
fixed a bug that "--enable-socket-dir" was accidentally not required due to a
bashism in the configure script.
Building locally, I have confirmed the following patch fixes the issue for me:
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 7733fec..9565c8c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ ROOT_UDEB := $(CURDIR)/debian/screen-udeb
TTYGROUP := 5
# Common configure options for .deb and .udeb
SCREEN_CONFIGURE=--with-socket-dir=/run/screen \
+ --enable-socket-dir \
--with-pty-mode=0600 \
--with-pty-group=${TTYGROUP} \
--enable-rxvt_osc \
-- Package-specific info:
File Existence and Permissions
------------------------------
drwxr-xr-x 47 root root 1480 May 10 22:06 /run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 2 2011 /var/run -> /run
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 482016 Apr 21 13:53 /usr/bin/screen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Jun 21 2017 /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 8 2015
/lib/systemd/system/screen-cleanup.service -> /dev/null
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1222 Apr 2 2017 /etc/init.d/screen-cleanup
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 29 2023 /etc/rcS.d/S15screen-cleanup ->
../init.d/screen-cleanup
File contents
-------------
### /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf
______________________________________________________________________
d /run/screen 1777 root utmp
______________________________________________________________________
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii debianutils 5.23.2
ii libc6 2.42-15
ii libpam0g 1.7.0-5+b1
ii libtinfo6 6.6+20251231-1
screen recommends no packages.
Versions of packages screen suggests:
pn byobu | screenie | iselect <none>
pn ncurses-term <none>
-- debconf-show failed
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 5.0.1-2
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