Re: Cannot re-attach to screen session after screen-4.3.1-r1 to screen-4.4.0 upgrade

On 2017-04-11 09:16, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> Hi Amadeusz,
> 
> Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:44:32 +0200
>> Martin MOKREJŠ <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>   does anyone have a clue why I cannot re-attached to my existing 
>>> screen sessions after upgrade?
>>> I use "screeen -R $ID". What should I check?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Martin
>>> 
>> 
>> Hey,
>> 
>> yes there is incompatibility between those versions, from release 
>> message 
>> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2016-06/msg00000.html)
>> 
>> "Do note that there was fix to screen message structure field
>> responsible for $TERM handling, which makes it impossible to attach to
>> older versions (hence minor version bump)."
>> 
>> You can try to attach by using /proc/$SCREENPID/exe -x
> 
> I get permission denied. I got some new screen session when I executed
> it as root, but I certainly did not enter my user's session.
> 
> I just opened https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615266 and asked
> for restoring of the 4.3.1-r1 version, at least for a while.
> 
> I compiled manually from original tarball but it did not work as I
> cannot specify path to the directory with sockets on the command line.
> 
> I have /tmp/screen/S-${username} but self-compiled vanilla screen
> looked for /tmp/uscreens/S-${username}. The Gentoo documentation says
> /var/run/screen/S-${username} and
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591772 proposes
> $HOME/.screen/.
> 
> Seems easiest is to restore the package for the time being.

Try setting the env var SCREENDIR=/tmp/screen/S-${username}

You might need to remove the SUID bit from the screen binary first.

Check the man page for more info.

-- 
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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