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Killing unresponsive screen sessions (detached or otherwise)

Sometimes some screen sessions becomes unresponsive for whatever reason. To completely kill it, follow these steps:

  • Find sessions using screen -ls
  • Attached to sessions (which may not be responding) with screen -r [SESSION_ID]
  • Kill by pressing Ctrl+a then type :quit

There are also other methods, check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1509677/kill-detached-screen-session

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