Jun 22 2008
Issues with hanging screen/ssh/irssi
After having encountered this issue several times, I’m glad I have found a solution on the osdir site.
http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.screen.user/2005-04/msg00051.html
This solves:
- irssi screen hangs
- ssh timeout hang screens
The workaround for this issue: kill all “old” ssh connections to that screen that are no longer connected. According to strace, it seems screen is trying to write to the client, which is no longer connected:
write(1, “[22;1H\33[1L\33[1;24r\33[?25l\33[24;11H\33″…, 235 <unfinished …>