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title: "Screen cannot open terminal error"
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date: 2018-07-03
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description: How to fix a "Screen cannot open terminal" error
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tags:
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- linux
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- toolbox
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- unix
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---
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## The problem
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At my current workplace there are die hard screen fanatics that refuse to upgrade to tmux. Sometimes I get the following error :
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```sh
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Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check.
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```
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## The solution
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This error means that you did not open the shell with the user you logged in with. You can make screen happy by running :
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```sh
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script /dev/null
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```
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In this new environment your screen commands will work normally.
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