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earlier today (or yesterday -_-) I've rented a VPS (from aruba cloud) for a personal project. I've managed to establish SSH connection in putty so I can run shell commands alright. What I want to do now is get access to my VPS's graphical interface. I've been trying to use X2go (from a computer running windows 10) and it returns error message:

ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device.

After googling this for a while I've found out that this means that some device has been called in a way that it can't interpret, but I can't figure out what device (networking card?) exactly is the source of this issue, much less how to resolve it. Does anybody know how to do that using terminal commands only?

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In your /home/user/.profile add the following line :

tty -s && mesg n

... and remove any other "mesg" line which is the root cause of the problem

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