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Hi Tony,
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Tony Andersson wrote:
> Maybe it is me that have missed something (as usual), but it seems
> that I have a strange behaviour at (in? on? with?) the vps console. I
> can login as usual, and screen is starting up a shell on my vps. But
> if I detach the screen process from the console (with C^-a d for
> example), I am immediately logged out.
Xen Shell is itself GNU Screen. It sounds like you have started a
screen within Screen. You would, I think, need to double up the
ctrl-a there to send the command to your own Screen, and this
becomes immensely confusing.
If it is any consolation I also find use of GNU Screen on real
serial consoles and IPMI serial-over-lan to be "a bit much" for the
environment and so try to avoid doing it wherever possible, spending
as little time as I can in the console.
> At that stage I expected to get to the xen shell so I could
> control the state of my vps. But that does not happen.
Since the Xen Shell is GNU Screen, using ctrl-a c to create a new
window would result in a new window at the Xen Shell menu and leave
your existing window at your console, with ctrl-a a toggling between
them.
If you really wanted to kill your console session and return to the
Xen Shell menu then it is ctrl-]. I am not sure how or if that would
work if you had made a screen within Screen.
In any case once you have gone into the console it is usually
simpler to create a new window for the menu and toggle between.
If that helped, perhaps
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Xen_Shell
could do with some love to make it more obvious?
Cheers,
Andy
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