Comment 6 for bug 1025998

I just saw this again in 5.129. I did

./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
make
make install

I worked around it by replacing part of byobu-janitor (at line 53)

# Affects: Upgrades from <= byobu 4.30
# Clear out old style status configuration
if ! grep -qs "^screen_upper_left=" "$BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status"; then
        rm -f "$BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status" "$BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/statusrc"
fi

with

# Affects: Upgrades from <= byobu 4.30
# Clear out old style status configuration
# WGM: Added additional check to avoid problem with the fact that
# $BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status is a directory these days:
if [ -f "$BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status" ]; then
    if ! grep -qs "^screen_upper_left=" "$BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status"; then
        rm -f "$BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status" "$BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/statusrc"
    fi
fi