config.py is needed, but not found, for some operations such as F9

Hello Kevin,

Thank you for filing this bug report! Can you be more specific than "Some operations listed in the documentation are failing"? What operations did you try and do they all fail the same way? Can you provide a traceback or the exact output?

Thanks,
Nish

I'm sorry that this bug was filed when I was completely confused, but that's the nature of some bug events. I know I was trying byobu for the first time and nothing much was working. I just now tried the obvious thing of starting byobu and pressing F9, and just got nothing at all. Of course, now I have a collection of tmux sessions going, so that may have changed things.

My bad for not getting verbatim error texts at the time. I should not have filed a bug without them.

I was trying F9 because it's listed in byobu's man page as being "commonly" bound to "configuration menu". It seems odd that it does nothing. I don't see any complaints about config.py, and I know I never figured out what config.py was or where it should have come from.

I'm obviously still mostly confused, but I have more or less concluded that byobu adds nothing that I can't get from bare tmux. It would be nice if the man page or those tutorials I tried would be clear about what it offers -- perhaps I'm missing something.

Hmmm. I explored my system a bit, and did find 3 contemporaneous files that may bear on this, at
/var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.uploaded
/var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.crash
/var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.upload

Two of these are empty, but the one suffixed .crash is appended.

Hmmm. I explored my system a bit, and did find 3 contemporaneous files
that may bear on this, at
/var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.uploaded
/var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.crash
/var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.upload

Two of these are empty, but the one suffixed .crash is appended.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Nish Aravamudan <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hello Kevin,
>
> Thank you for filing this bug report! Can you be more specific than
> "Some operations listed in the documentation are failing"? What
> operations did you try and do they all fail the same way? Can you
> provide a traceback or the exact output?
>
> Thanks,
> Nish
>
> ** Changed in: byobu (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1615103
>
> Title:
> config.py is needed, but not found, for some operations such as F9
>
> Status in byobu package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I just installed byobu on Xenial, and I'm trying to learn it. Some
> operations listed in the documentation are failing because of a
> missing "config.py" or complaining that config.py has failed.
>
> I don't see config.py in the contents list of byobu (looking at
> byobu's properties in Syntaptic).
>
> Where is it supposed to come from? Is this a missing dependency?
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
> Package: byobu 5.106-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15
> Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: XFCE
> Date: Fri Aug 19 12:49:23 2016
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-08 (10 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
> (20160719)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: byobu
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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