Re: one window locked up, others accessible

[Micah Cowan]

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Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am running screen 4.00.02 on a Linux 2.6.20 machine that I'm ssh'ed in
> to. I use screen -x to attach to a session with windows running programs
> like mutt, lynx, etc. I sometimes encounter a problem that has lately
> become annoyingly frequent.
>
> With no apparent pattern, one of my screen windows will suddenly lock up
> solid, as though I'd pressed ^AS (but I didn't, of course). I can switch
> to other windows and use them normally, but I've never been able to coax
> a window to come back to life from the frozen state. Killing it with ^AK
> is the only option.

You say you haven't pressed ^AS (though I'm pretty sure you mean ^A^S or
^As); but have you pressed ^S by itself, when flow control is on? Did
you try typing ^Q?

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Micah J. Cowan
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