How do I fix 'WriteMessage: Bad file descriptor' of screen -r name?

Question

When I try to resume a screen session with

$ screen -r name

I get

WriteMessage: Bad file descriptor

How can I fix that? (Ideally being able to resume the screen, but at least remove it if resuming is not possible)

The problem why it occurs might be that the SSH connection was interrupted.

Answer 1

This worked for me:

1. Find the process's pid by running screen -R
2. Use screen -r <pid> instead of screen -r <name>

If the screen didn't detach from previous ssh session, you might also need to kill dead sshd process.