F9 configuration menu does not work

Thanks for the report. I need a little more information ...

Would you please run "byobu-config" outside of byobu and screen?

Hopefully there's a python backtrace that you can copy and paste here.

Thanks!

Yes, running byobu-config outside of byobu works. It's just that the config menu after pressing F9 does not work. Whenever I hit ENTER it throws me out.

I tried to get a gdb backtrace but all I got was:

(gdb) run /usr/bin/byobu
Starting program: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/byobu
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
  File "/usr/bin/byobu", line 24
    if [ "$1" = "-v" ]; then
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Program exited with code 01.

What's your default shell?

Sorry, my default shell is zsh. Forgot to mention that.

Okay, thanks.

I just committed a fix that should solve that "$1" = "-v" issue.

I'm not sure if that will fix your problem, though.

Can you change one line in /usr/bin/byobu and tell me if that solves it for you?

--- /usr/bin/byobu 2009-12-14 03:16:43 +0000
+++ /usr/bin/byobu 2009-12-14 16:57:01 +0000
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 VERSION=2.41

 # Add a version argument for debugging purposes
-if [ "$1" = "-v" ]; then
+if [ "$#" = "1" ] && [ "$1" = "-v" ]; then
        echo "$PKG version $VERSION"
        screen -v
        exit 0

Now i get this:

(gdb) run /usr/bin/byobu
Starting program: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/byobu
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
  File "/usr/bin/byobu", line 24
    if [ "$#" = "1" ] && [ "$1" = "-v" ]; then
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Program exited with code 01.
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But I wonder if this is really related to the F9 bug. Byobu runs fine otherwise, so it might not be related to that particular line of code.

That's really strange. I'll need to install zsh and play with it, as
I'm totally unfamiliar with zsh. I don't think I'm doing anything
there that's non POSIX-shell... Hrm. Can you delete that whole
little code block that prints the version info, and see if its any
happier?

Hmm, I think I might not have all debugging symbols installed and that's why it keeps giving me these messages. Sorry, I'm not a python expert.

As for the F9 bug, I think it has nothing to do with those backtraces. Tomorrow I will try to play around using bash and see what happens.

This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 2.41-0ubuntu1

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byobu (2.41-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * byobu:
    - check number of args for "1", and "-v", LP: #494465
    - make more zsh friendly, don't use -c

  [ Jon Bernard ]
  * bin/disk: fix missing %, LP: #497136
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:16:43 -0800

Hi,

I also have the very same problem.
I'm able to run byobu-config from a regular terminal without problem.

Also, for the Shell, as far as I know I use the default that come with Ubuntu:
fmaz@FMaz-Zino:~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Also running into this issue with byobu 5.35 compiled from source on zsh. Looks like a missing module that wasn't in the prereqs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/bin/byobu-config", line 36, in <module>
    error("Could not import the python snack module")
NameError: name 'error' is not defined