On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:02:51AM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Friday 18 December 2009 19:34:18 Chad Perrin wrote: > > When I tried asking this before, it was evidently during a period that > > the mailing list was down, so I'll try again: > > > > After updating software on a FreeBSD 6.1 system, tmux appears to be > > broken. I still have a persistent tmux session running on the system, > > but I cannot access it with `tmux att`. I also cannot start new tmux > > sessions. > > > > As a non-root user: > > > tmux att > > > > can't create socket: Not a directory > > > > > tmux > > > > can't create socket: Not a directory > > > What happens if you do "tmux -S /some/path/tmuxsocket", detach, and > then "tmux -S /some/path/tmuxsocket a"? If that works then there is some > problem with the default socket path (/tmp/tmux-####). I would check the > permissions on /tmp and remove any /tmp/tmux* directories.
I piddled around trying to figure out a way to recover my tmux session, but eventually just deleted the file for it in /tmp and now tmux acts as expected (though without my preexisting session, darnit). Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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