Kill detached screen session

You can kill a detached session which is not responding within the screen session by doing the following.

1. Type screen -list to identify the detached screen session.

   ~$ screen -list  
       There are screens on:  
            20751.Melvin_Peter_V42  (Detached)  
   

   Note: 20751.Melvin_Peter_V42 is your session id.

2. Get attached to the detached screen session

   screen -r 20751.Melvin_Peter_V42

3. Once connected to the session press Ctrl + A then type :quit

"kill" will only kill one screen window. To "kill" the complete session, use quit.

Example

$ screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] quit

For dead sessions use: $ screen -wipe