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

A less drastic action (to try before killing the tmux process) is to ssh into the machine and run the following command.

kill -CONT `pidof tmux`

Source: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/507#issuecomment-271502093