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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:58:57 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: broken tmux [solved]
Message-ID:  <20091219015857.GA1163@guilt.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <200912190202.52600.pieter@degoeje.nl>
References:  <20091218183418.GB15899@guilt.hydra> <200912190202.52600.pieter@degoeje.nl>

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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:02:51AM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> 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=20
> then "tmux -S /some/path/tmuxsocket a"? If that works then there is some=
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> problem with the default socket path (/tmp/tmux-####). I would check the=
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> permissions on /tmp and remove any /tmp/tmux* directories.

I piddled around trying to figure out a way to recover my tmux session,
but eventually just deleted the file for it in /tmp and now tmux acts as
expected (though without my preexisting session, darnit).  Thanks for
pointing me in the right direction.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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