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Subject: Re: broken tmux
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On Friday 18 December 2009 19:34:18 Chad Perrin wrote:
> When I tried asking this before, it was evidently during a period that
> the mailing list was down, so I'll try again:
>
> After updating software on a FreeBSD 6.1 system, tmux appears to be
> broken.  I still have a persistent tmux session running on the system,
> but I cannot access it with `tmux att`.  I also cannot start new tmux
> sessions.
>
> As a non-root user:
>     > tmux att
>
>     can't create socket: Not a directory
>
>     > tmux
>
>     can't create socket: Not a directory
>
What happens if you do "tmux -S /some/path/tmuxsocket", detach, and 
then "tmux -S /some/path/tmuxsocket a"? If that works then there is some 
problem with the default socket path (/tmp/tmux-####). I would check the 
permissions on /tmp and remove any /tmp/tmux* directories.

-- 
Pieter de Goeje