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

You should be able to narrow down your problem a bit with a few of these tests:

1. Give it a shot from outside X11: Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or use ssh from another computer)

2. Test if other terminal emulators work: script and screen

3. Try another complicated terminal application: htop and mc

4. Reset your TTY settings: stty sane

5. Check that your terminal identified: echo $TERM (it should be something like "xterm" or "linux")

6. Make that your terminal capabilities file exists: ls -lh /usr/share/terminfo/*/$TERM