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How to resolve "mesg: ttyname failed: No such device" in the chroot environment?

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I get the following error message whenever I enter the Cubic chroot environment:

    Enter chroot environment.

    mesg: ttyname failed: No such device

How to resolve this?

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Cubic PPA (cubic-wizard) said : 		#1

This message is harmless and can be safely ignored.

It is caused by the following line in your .profile, file inside the chroot environment:

    mesg n || true

Essentially, the "mesg n" command should not be executed in an environment (like chroot) that does no have a tty device.

To correct this issue, edit ~/.profile and replace the above line with:

    (tty > /dev/null) && (mesg n || true)

You can use nano to edit the .profile file, or you can execute the following command in chroot:

    $ sed -i 's/^mesg n || true$/(tty > /dev/null) && (mesg n || true)/g' ~/.profile