diff --git a/lib/copy_this/www/lib/Musik.php b/lib/copy_this/www/lib/Musik.php
index b1f79c712..a8caedc72 100644
--- a/lib/copy_this/www/lib/Musik.php
+++ b/lib/copy_this/www/lib/Musik.php
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ class Musik
 	 */
 	public function getMusicInfo($id)
 	{
-		$pdo = $this->pdo;
 		return $this->pdo->queryOneRow(sprintf("SELECT musicinfo.*, genres.title AS genres FROM musicinfo LEFT OUTER JOIN genres ON genres.ID = musicinfo.genreID WHERE musicinfo.ID = %d ", $id));
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/copy_this/www/lib/TmuxOutput.php b/lib/copy_this/www/lib/TmuxOutput.php
index cb714b55e..9766d4431 100644
--- a/lib/copy_this/www/lib/TmuxOutput.php
+++ b/lib/copy_this/www/lib/TmuxOutput.php
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class TmuxOutput extends Tmux
 		$buffer = '';
 		$state = ($this->runVar['settings']['is_running'] == 1) ? 'Running' : 'Disabled';
 		//$version = $this->_tvers . 'r' . $this->_vers;
-		$tversion = '0.6r0052';
+		$tversion = '0.6r0053';
 
 		$buffer .= sprintf($this->tmpMasks[2],
 					"Monitor $state v$tversion @ $this->_tvers [" . $this->_vers ."]: ",
diff --git a/lib/copy_this/www/lib/util.php b/lib/copy_this/www/lib/util.php
index 20c456679..d2ce450fa 100644
--- a/lib/copy_this/www/lib/util.php
+++ b/lib/copy_this/www/lib/util.php
@@ -13,6 +13,19 @@ class Utility
 	 */
 	const PATH_REGEX = '(?P<drive>[A-Za-z]:|)(?P<path>[/\w.-]+|)';
 
+	static public function clearScreen()
+	{
+		if (self::isCLI())
+		{
+			if (self::isWin())
+			{
+				passthru('cls');
+			} else {
+				passthru('clear');
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Replace all white space chars for a single space.
 	 *
diff --git a/start.php b/start.php
index f11053372..8d1644a0f 100644
--- a/start.php
+++ b/start.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 require_once(dirname(__FILE__)."/bin/config.php");
 require_once(WWW_DIR . "lib/framework/db.php");
 require_once (WWW_DIR.'/lib/site.php');
+require_once (WWW_DIR.'/lib/util.php');
 require_once(WWW_DIR. '/lib/Tmux.php');
 require_once(WWW_DIR . "/lib/ColorCLI.php");
 
@@ -24,16 +25,18 @@ $tablepergroup = ($tablepergroup != '') ? $tablepergroup : 0;
 $delaytimet = $site->delaytime;
 $delaytimet = ($delaytimet) ? (int)$delaytimet : 2;
 
-// Search for NNTPProxy session that might be running froma userthreaded.php run. Setup a clean environment to run in.
+Utility::clearScreen();
+
+echo "Starting Tmux...\n";
+// Create a placeholder session so tmux commands do not throw server not found errors.
+exec('tmux new-session -ds placeholder 2>/dev/null');
+// Search for NNTPProxy session that might be running from a user threaded.php run. Setup a clean environment to run in.
 exec("tmux list-session | grep NNTPProxy", $nntpkill);
-if (count($nntpkill) === 0) {
-	exec("tmux list-session", $sessions);
-	if (count($sessions) === 0) {
-		echo $db->log->notice("The above is a notice generated by tmux. \nWhen starting this script, we first check that nntpproxy is not already running in a tmux session. If it is not, the above notice is generated by tmux.\nIt is not an error.");
-	}
-} else {
-	echo $db->log->notice("Found NNTPProxy tmux session and killing it.");
+if (count($nntpkill) !== 0) {
 	exec("tmux kill-session -t NNTPProxy");
+	echo $pdo->log->notice("Found NNTPProxy tmux session and killing it.");
+} else {
+	exec("tmux list-session", $session);
 }
 
 // Check database patch version
@@ -42,11 +45,22 @@ if ($patch < 117) {
 }
 
 //check if session exists
-$exec = exec("tmux list-session | grep $tmux_session", $session);
+$session = shell_exec("tmux list-session | grep $tmux_session");
+// Kill the placeholder
+exec('tmux kill-session -t placeholder');
 if (count($session) !== 0) {
-	exit($c->error("tmux session:" . $tmux_session . " is already running, aborting.Attach to session by typing tmux att\n"));
-} else {
-	echo $c->notice("The above is a notice generated by tmux. \nWhen starting this script, we first check that you do not have a tmux session currently running. If you do not, the above notice is generated by tmux.\nIt is not an error.");
+	exit($pdo->log->error("tmux session: '" . $tmux_session . "' is already running, aborting.\n"));
+}
+
+$nntpproxy = $site->nntpproxy;
+if ($nntpproxy == '1') {
+	$modules = ["nntp", "socketpool"];
+	foreach ($modules as &$value) {
+		if (!python_module_exist($value)) {
+			exit($pdo->log->error("\nNNTP Proxy requires " . $value .
+				" python module but it's not installed. Aborting.\n"));
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 //reset collections dateadded to now if dateadded > delay time check