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

Had a similar issue, where I had a tmux session with two buffers. I didn't see anything I typed, but when I switched between buffers what I had typed previously would appear onscreen. stty sane didn't work.

I detached Ctrl-b+d, and noticed that there was still a client attached when I looked at tmux list-clients. tmux detach-client removed it, and then I could reattach and the everything worked again.