[SOLVED] GNU Screen - sessions always dead after restart

I recently started using GNU screen. I'm able to detach and reattach sessions normally, except after a restart. Then any detached sessions are marked as dead and all I can do is run a screen -wipe. My sessions are stored in ~/.screen.
I've searched the web and forums but no one seems to have had this problem.
Any ideas? Screen's a lot less useful if I can't reattach after restarting.
Last edited by noahsark1126 (2009-08-18 05:14:42)

This is sort of related, but sometimes it is possible to use special software to suspend an application as a file, which could possibly be set up with screen to provide a rebootable state. However this software seems to be fairly hard to find and get working well enough to be usable. If you want to investigate more, you can probably google for something like "linux application freezing" or "linux application checkpointing".
Actually I just found the software I was thinking of as I'm typing this, http://cryopid.berlios.de/. The page doesn't seem to be loading for me, but I think I have used this in the past with limited success. Not sure if it up to date with the latest kernels however.

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