screen halting on startup?

[Chris Poole]

Hi,

I'm connecting to a mac mini remotely through ssh.

When I invoke screen on the mini, the cursor drops to the next line, and that's it. Nothing else happens. It doesn't seem to respond to ^c either: I drop the ssh connection via "[return]~."

screen starts up ok on the same machine if using a shell on the machine directly.

Anyone know what the issue could be? It's screen 4.00.03 (FAU), standard Mac OS X Snow Leopard version.