On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:13 AM, John Hawley <jhawley at hissingdragon.net> wrote: > On 03/23/2011 11:15 PM, Robert Nesius wrote: >> >> >> >> 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. :/ >> >> >> I'm wondering if your tty/terminal settings are different from root's. >> >> Are root and your non-root user running the same screen? (Probably, but I'd check anyway.) >> >> Just brainstorming. >> >> -Rob > > Ok, it is something to do with settings in my ~/.bashrc. If I temporarily remove that file and start a new terminal, everythings fine with screen. I'll have to dissect it to see what is conflicting. > > ~jh > Try comparing your environments with and without your .bashrc. Dump stty and env to files and diff them. And, diss your bashrc with root's for ideas too. Glad you got it working at least. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110324/6249dd72/attachment.html>