Bug 974619

Summary:	Screen command does not work on openshift
Product:	OpenShift Online	Reporter:	Alexander Bätz <baetz.alexander>
Component:	Containers	Assignee:	Jhon Honce <jhonce>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	libra bugs <libra-bugs>
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Version:	2.x	CC:	baetz.alexander, fotios, mpatel
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Description Alexander Bätz 2013-06-14 15:52:19 UTC

Description of problem:

any call to the screen command fails with "LoginName to long - sorry"

How reproducible:

try to start something in a screen

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh to openshift gear
2. try to execute any command with screen ( screen "echo test" )

Actual results:

command is not executed
error message: LoginName too long - sorry.

Expected results:
start screen

Additional info:
known screen bug. see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2011-05/msg00000.html

Comment 1 Mrunal Patel 2013-06-14 19:23:43 UTC

This is an upstream issue: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?21653

Comment 2 Fotios Lindiakos 2013-06-14 19:46:31 UTC

Even if that upstream issue is fixed, we will also hit another bug because $HOME is too long. We might want to consider offering tmux. We could add a helper in rhcsh for screen that tells the user to use tmux instead.