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Re: argh, the dreaded screen bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W.D.McKinney)
Wed Nov 27 00:45:25 1996

From: "W.D.McKinney" <deem@deesign.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:44:07 -0900 (AKST)
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Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm being afflicted by screen's "screen is terminating" problem. It starts
> up (after a somewhat long pause!), then terminates immediately. I have
> seen this before, and believe it was related to bust tty handling code in
> the kernel. So I upgraded to 2.0.26, but the problem persisted!! I ran
> 2.0.24 for a while and it seemed fine under that. 2.0.0 definitely has the
> problem.
> 

Funny, I haven't seen this problem at all, with any 2.0.xx kernel.


> I am running the updated screen package. strace outputs can be provided if
> required. Will check for problem on my personal 2.0.25 machine.
> 

Hmm... I guess which having Accelerated-X there is no connection to the problem.

Regards,

Dee
deem@deesign.com


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