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Respawn the lish screen (or disallow kill sequence)

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bdonlan



Joined: 22 Jan 2008
Posts: 67

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:08 am    Post subject: Respawn the lish screen (or disallow kill sequence)  

It seems it's possible to shoot oneself in the foot by doing C-a k y in a lish screen session; the screen session doesn't seem to respawn (was testing to see if it could be used to reset it after someone in IRC mentioned problems with the lish terminal state being corrupted). It might be good to either respawn the screen session, or disallow use of C-a k...
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bdonlan



Joined: 22 Jan 2008
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:09 am    Post subject:  

Erk, moreover lish then reports the linode as 'powered off' when it actually isn't.
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caker



Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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Location: Galloway, NJ

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:54 am    Post subject:  

Bah -- I had "K" bound but not "k". Fixed.

-Chris
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MaineCoon



Joined: 24 Apr 2008
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 4:37 pm    Post subject:  

I've just been bit by this. For some reason my lish appeared frozen, so I did the C-a k y, and now it thinks the machine is powered off (it isn't), but dashboard says running.

There is no screen to be attached matching maine.
Your Linode isn't running, or another console session is already active.

This is on dallas64.
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caker



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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:04 pm    Post subject:  

Yup. It was fixed for future reboots, not preexisting ones...

-Chris
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nulbyte



Joined: 20 May 2008
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:02 pm    Post subject: Right  

So, yeah, right ... "fixed." How does one recover when you kill the screen session? I'd rather not reboot.
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kangaby



Joined: 20 Oct 2004
Posts: 62

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:17 am    Post subject: Re: Right  

nulbyte wrote: So, yeah, right ... "fixed." How does one recover when you kill the screen session? I'd rather not reboot.

I put in a support ticket about this back in December 2007.


Support Ticket 34014 has been updated by 'mgreb'

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Thanks for this report, we will look into it.
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Internat



Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 172
Location: Brisbane, Australia

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:01 am    Post subject:  

From the thread..
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Yup. It was fixed for future reboots, not preexisting ones...

-Chris

I assume you had rebooted since this fix was applied?
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