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

I had the same issue. The cause is that the tmux buffer is full, and it also may happens cause of multi clients to the tmux session.

To solve it you need to detach all the clients from the session, and reattach it.

The best way I found to solve it is to add to the ~/.bashrc file this functions:

check_params() {
       if [[ $1 < $2 ]]; then
               echo -e "Usage:\n${3}"
               ok=0
       else
               ok=1
       fi

}

# detach all the clients from this session, and attach to it.
reattach_client() {
       check_params $# 1 "reattach_client "
       if [[ $ok == 1 ]]; then
               tmux list-client | grep $1 | awk '{split($1, s, ":"); print s[1]}' | xargs tmux detach-client -t | true
               tmux attach -t $1
       fi
}

then run source ~/.bashrc to make these changes in the terminal.

Now to attach the session type:

reattach_client 

solved my issue.

Thanks to Alex Zelichenko for help me with this!