Troubleshooting
PuTTY
A.7 Troubleshooting
- A.7.1 Why do I see ‘Fatal: Protocol error: Expected control record’ in PSCP?
- A.7.2 I clicked on a colour in the Colours panel, and the colour didn't change in my terminal.
- A.7.3 After trying to establish an SSH-2 connection, PuTTY says ‘Out of memory’ and dies.
- A.7.4 When attempting a file transfer, either PSCP or PSFTP says ‘Out of memory’ and dies.
- A.7.5 PSFTP transfers files much slower than PSCP.
- A.7.6 When I run full-colour applications, I see areas of black space where colour ought to be, or vice versa.
- A.7.7 When I change some terminal settings, nothing happens.
- A.7.8 My PuTTY sessions unexpectedly close after they are idle for a while.
- A.7.9 PuTTY's network connections time out too quickly when network connectivity is temporarily lost.
- A.7.10 When I
cat a binary file, I get ‘PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY’ on my command line.
- A.7.11 When I
cat a binary file, my window title changes to a nonsense string.
- A.7.12 My keyboard stops working once PuTTY displays the password prompt.
- A.7.13 One or more function keys don't do what I expected in a server-side application.
- A.7.14 Why do I see ‘Couldn't load private key from ...’? Why can PuTTYgen load my key but not PuTTY?
- A.7.15 When I'm connected to a Red Hat Linux 8.0 system, some characters don't display properly.
- A.7.16 Since I upgraded to PuTTY 0.54, the scrollback has stopped working when I run
screen.
- A.7.17 Since I upgraded Windows XP to Service Pack 2, I can't use addresses like
127.0.0.2.
- A.7.18 PSFTP commands seem to be missing a directory separator (slash).
- A.7.19 Do you want to hear about ‘Software caused connection abort’?
- A.7.20 My SSH-2 session locks up for a few seconds every so often.
- A.7.21 PuTTY fails to start up. Windows claims that ‘the application configuration is incorrect’.
- A.7.22 When I put 32-bit PuTTY in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 on my 64-bit Windows system, ‘Duplicate Session’ doesn't work.