I suggest you put your old .tmux.conf back, making sure it creates at least one session, and if the problem still exists send me the contents of it.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:38:06PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > You haven't explained what you are trying to do. If the server started > by start-server stayed around for you before then you must have been > creating a session in .tmux.conf. The server will exit if there are no > sessions and tmux start does not create one. > > If you want to use start-server you will have to create a session in > .tmux.conf. Otherwise use new-session -d. > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:37:54AM -0700, John Schmitt wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:03:06PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > It has always been true. start-server was added so that someone who > > > creates sessions in tmux.conf can start tmux without getting the extra > > > session new-session would create. You can't have a tmux server with no > > > sessions and never could. > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 07:55:56AM -0700, John Schmitt wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:41:16PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 07:34:50AM -0700, John Schmitt wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:04:05AM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > > > > > What is in .tmux.conf? > > > > > > > > > > > > I remove ~/.tmux.conf when I started to diagnose this problem. > > > > > > > > > > tmux servers can't exist without a session so you need to create one > > > > > either in .tmux.conf or on the command line. > > > > > > > > That has not been true in the past. From the man page: > > > > > > > > start-server > > > > (alias: start) > > > > Start the tmux server, if not already running, without creating any > > > > sessions. > > > > If you have a suggestion for how to change my use, I'd love to hear it, > > thank you. But: > > > > 1. This has worked for several months. > > > > 2. If I understand the man page, start-server does exactly what I want it > > to do and I'm using it as documented. > > > > 3. Noone else on the mailing list suggested an alternative to my usage nor > > hinted that my use is unsupported. > > > > 4. In late August I upgraded to F17 which roughly coincides with the > > failure of my use of start-server. > > > > Dear tmux-users, do I understand tmux start-server and is it supported as > > described in the man page? > > > > Thanks for your attention. I love tmux and the tmux community. > > > > John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
