Perhaps your .screenrc got corrupted somehow?

- Vee

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM, John Hawley <jhawley at hissingdragon.net> wrote:
> Can't figure out what's up with screen on one of my machines.
>
> jhawley at vulpix:~$ screen -S 1   ... and I get a blank screen with "New
> screen ..." at bottom for a few seconds.  Screen appears to be running, but
> none of the Ctrl commands work.
>
> If I log in as root, it works fine.  This is Ubuntu 10.4.
>
> What might be up?  "screen" is such a generic name, its hard to google for.
> :/
>
> ~jh
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