screen command hangs

[Red Squirrel]

I had used the screen command to setup a long run task months ago and want to check up on it, but when I type screen -r it just hangs. I can't really google this since screen refers to a monitor or display so I'm just getting irrelevant results.

Only way out is to close the SSH tab as I can't ctrl+c or anything.

 

[zambien1]

Have you tried opening another terminal and running the following?

ps -ef | grep screen

This will show you the running processes and may lead you closer to what is occurring.