Ubuntu
byobu package

Pressing CTRL-A in byobu hangs the shell

Bug #1322538 reported by Thomas Schweikle
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
byobu (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Pressing CTRL-A the first time in byobu starts a dialog asking if you want screen- or emacs-behaviour. Answering "1" for "screen-behaviour" makes byobu hang: no further keypresses are accepted.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: byobu 5.77-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 23 11:05:18 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-10 (101 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen-bce
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: byobu
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-02-18 (94 days ago)

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Thomas Schweikle (tps) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in byobu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ben Coleman (oloryn) wrote :

Also, once this is done (choosing screen behavior from the menu), after disconnecting and reconnecting to get an unfrozen shell, merely hitting CTRL-A will cause the shell to freeze.

Not all of my 14.04 machines do this - currently, just one. I'm not sure what triggered this. Also, as much as I use this feature, I question that this would be the first time I had used CTRL-A since upgrading to 14.04

I worked around it by purging byobu, tmux, and screen, then removing the .byobu directory, and re-installing byobu. I doubt the purging and re-installing is necessary - I suspect that disabling byobu, removing the .byobu directory, and re-enabling byobu would do the trick.

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MilkBoy (michael-wikberg) wrote :

rm -rf .byobu && sudo dpkg -P screen fixed it.. Only byoby sessions using screen has had this issue for me.

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