tmux server exited unexpectedly

[link-ding]

Issue description

I used tmux kil-serverl to exit tmux and then terminal shows server exited unexpectedly.

Required information

Please provide the following information:

• tmux version (tmux -V) : tmux 3.1b
• Platform (uname -sp) : Darwin i386
• $TERM inside and outside of tmux (echo $TERM). outside: xterm-256color inside: I can not use tmux now
• Logs from tmux (tmux kill-server; tmux -vv new). This also gives 'server exited unexpectedly'

[nicm]

Works OK for me. Does this still happen with master?

If so then please show logs from doing tmux kill-server; tmux -vv new then tmux kill-server.

[zfwf]

@link-ding I also cannot start tmux with the server existed unexpectedly msg. I fixed it by remove files starting with tmux in /tmp

[casprwang]

@chhschou
Works like a charm. Curious how did you find/debug this solution. Some cache stored there was interrupting the tmux server start?

[zfwf]

@chhschou

Works like a charm. Curious how did you find/debug this solution. Some cache stored there was interrupting the tmux server start?

Hi @casprwang I got this issue after upgrade to tmux 3.1b from 2.9 so I uninstalled and went back to 2.9. The issue still persisted with 2.9 which didn't before so I start to look into /tmp and other file caches, deleting files that looks related to tmux then try restarting tmux until it started. The author of tmux could perhaps document (in a faq or something easy to read) what files are used by tmux so user can do a proper clean uninstall.

[nicm]

It is documented in the man page.

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