Config not opening

[Chillar Anand]

When `F9` is pressed, byobu fails to open config window.

I thought there is something wrong with config files, so i removed `.byobu` directory, purged byobu and reinstalled. Still problem is not solved.

→ byobu -v
byobu version 5.108
tmux 2.1

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I've seen this somewhere too...

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I suspect a python problem.

[Alex Jepson (jepsonalex)]

Hey, new to Linux and whatnot. Using byobu with screen and am having the same issue launching the config via either f9 or byobu-config (and trying to run the /usr/lib/byobu/include/config.py in python). I have attached the crash log--if there is a better way to post this, please let me know as I want to provide information but also conform to forum and bug report methodologies. Thanks!

[Chillar Anand (chillaranand)]

Any updates on this?

[Phil Dobbin (bukowskiscat)]

I'm seeing this too.

Byobu 5.106 screen 4.03.01 Ubuntu 16.04

[Phil Dobbin (bukowskiscat)]

I've upgraded to 5.122 & F9 still doesn't work. It no longer gives an error message just the screen blinks momentarily.

I've attached the apport.log showing some entries pertaining to the problem. Hopefully this will help resolve this.

I'm running 16.0.3 Unity

[update]
It seems there's a problem attaching files so if you need it, let me know & I'll email it to you

[Phil Dobbin (bukowskiscat)]

[update]

I was using byobu with screen 4.03.01. However if I launch byobu with a tmux backend F9 works perfectly.

So it seems the problem lies with screen?

[YUKI Hiroshi (piro-or)]

I also saw this problem on my Ubuntu 16.04LTS. I'm using pyenv and "python --version" reports 3.5.1.

On my case, "byobu-config" command finishes immediately and it reports an error message: "ERROR: Could not import the python snack module". After I did "sudo apt install python-newt" the problem disappeared, so it looks an issue of package's dependency information.

[YUKI Hiroshi (piro-or)]

Sorry, my case at previous comment was already tracked on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/byobu/+bug/1770090

[Sam (dr34mer)]

I am facing this, I went debugging a bit deeper, adding my findings here in a hope that it will help others until the bug is fixed.

I found that the error complained about not able to find file /usr/lib/byobu/include/config.py which does exist. When I tried executing it, it turned out to be 'bad interpreter' (#!/usr/bin/python). I updated it to use my env,

#!/usr/bin/env python

Then I saw error about a library missing 'snack', I installed it (actually newt conda-forge package since my env is a conda one, not sure if only pip-installing snack would work. I see it working now.

[Sam (dr34mer)]

Update: my version is 5.125

byobu version 5.125
tmux 2.6