tmux: hangs and do not load, and do not respond to any option command

Question

I have installed tmux from source on my localspace in Fedora. It was working nicely so far. But suddenly can not run it anymore, when run tmux, it just halts. Tried different co

Answer 1

If it is ok to lose your sessions, try deleting the tmux-NNNNNNN directory, where NNNNNNN is a number, under your /tmp directory. According to the tmux manual, if the TMPDIR environment variable is set, the tmux-NNNNNNN will be put in the TMPDIR.

tmux stores the server socket in a directory under /tmp (or TMPDIR if set);

This solved my problem of not being able to run tmux commands that are related to sessions. I also tried the following, but they did not work:

• killall -9 tmux
• reinstall tmux
• restart shell session

I could not easily restart the operating system, because it's a shared server managed by others.