Your message dated Wed, 20 May 2026 14:23:18 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #869551,
regarding screen: does not work at all if the current user has the user name
"none"
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869551: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869551
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: screen
Version: 4.5.1-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
I've been having issues with screen since the day I upgraded my OS to Debian
9.0 with the testing
distribution. I can use it with the root account, but when entering "screen" in
the console while being
logged in as an ordinary user, screen returns immediately. The $? variable
invariably contains 0, and no
errors are reported on console.
We already discussed this problem briefly through e-mail, and I noted I had
opened a thread on SuperUser
(https://superuser.com/q/1223015/539790) several weeks ago.
I have trobleshooted a little using strace and gdb, and will perhaps paste
their logs in the follow up
replies to this message.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-12
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.6
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1
ii libutempter0 1.1.6-3
screen recommends no packages.
Versions of packages screen suggests:
ii byobu 5.112-1
ii iselect 1.4.0-2+b2
ii ncurses-term 6.0+20170715-2
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/screenrc changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
These bugs have been marked as wontfix for many years.
Closing.
--- End Message ---
