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title: "Screen cannot open terminal error"
linkTitle: "Screen cannot open terminal error"
date: 2018-07-03
description: >
  Screen cannot open terminal error
---

If you encounter :
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Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check.
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Then you did not open the shell with the user you logged in with. You can make screen happy by running : 
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script /dev/null
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