Your message dated Mon, 18 May 2026 14:17:54 +0200
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and subject line Closing as stale/wontfix
has caused the Debian Bug report #563715,
regarding screen 'no screen to be resumed' after, if the distant PC crashes
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Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-14
Severity: normal
hello,
Screen was running on a distant pc. I doing some operations. Several times, I
noticed that if my hp mini crashes, while working on this distant pc.
My session screen is still running, there, adn working, but but... .
it remains attached.
It is working when I shutdown my pc: the distant pc screen moves the attached
status to detached status, luckily.
But if I do a cold reset or a crash of my pc, the screen on hte distant pc will
remain attached.
This is particularly tricky and not good for testdisk, or long long long
operations.
Screen remains unstable for that :( I wish it would be 100pct stable for long
operations on servers, whatever clients do in terms of cold reset, crashes,....
I could always re-gain the running screen processes on the linux server.
Screen is very important program for Linux. Very useful and widely employed.
Best regards
Y.
We Love Linux
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.5.3 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam0g 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
screen recommends no packages.
screen suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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tags 563715 + wontfix unreproducible
thanks
Hi,
This report was filed against a very old version of screen, and hasn't
seen any followup or other similar reports in over 10 years.
The behaviour described here is consistent with stale session state
after an unclean client crash/power-loss, rather than a screen defect.
The documented recovery path is to force-detach/reattach and clean dead
sockets, i.e.:
- screen -D -RR (or screen -d -r)
- screen -wipe
Closing as stale/wontfix.
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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