dstat --output is broken

[Torsten Bronger]

On Ubuntu 20.04,

dstat --output /tmp/foobar

results in a traceback about a missing import:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dstat", line 2847, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/dstat", line 2687, in main
    scheduler.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/sched.py", line 151, in run
    action(*argument, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/dstat", line 2806, in perform
    oline = oline + o.showcsv() + o.showcsvend(totlist, vislist)
  File "/usr/bin/dstat", line 547, in showcsv
    if isinstance(self.val[name], types.ListType) or isinstance(self.val[name], types.TupleType):
NameError: name 'types' is not defined

[Torsten Bronger (bronger)]

Let me hijack my own bug report to declare that the dstat source used by Ubuntu is deceased. https://github.com/dstat-real/dstat is not developed further.

Please consider

https://github.com/scottchiefbaker/dool

or

https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp/tree/master/src/pcp/dstat

for replacing it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Francis Obwogo (francobwogo)]

Edit /usr/bin/dstat and change lines 547 and 552

Change line 547 to:
   if isinstance(self.val[name], (tuple, list)):

Change line 552 to:
   elif isinstance(self.val[name], str):

For more details, please visit https://serverfault.com/questions/996996/dstat-fails-to-start-trying-to-load-python3s-csv