tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf returned 127 about tmux-resurrect

[bruno-]

Hi, thanks for reporting this. I'm sorry this is happening for you, and I can't say what is the cause.
Generally, exit code 127 means "command not found".

Here are a couple things to try:

1. when inside tmux just try running ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux in the shell. Do you still get the error? Can you paste the output?
2. you have bash installed on the system right? It was not mentioned as a special dependency because it is so common.
3. tmux executable is in your $PATH? Test with which tmux (should display path to tmux).
4. you have dirname program? It is posix and very common so also not mentioned explicitly as a dependency. Test with which dirname.
5. Just in case, can you please attach the content of your .tmux.conf file.

I hope some of that will give us some clue!

[soosc]

If anyone else comes across the issue, this is what solved it for me.

Remove

run-shell ~/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux

from ~/.tmux.conf if installed via Tmux Plugin Manager. The above line is only needed when installing manually without the plugin manager.

[bruno-]

Hi @Netmage-76,
thanks for the detailed response. I think answers 1) and 2) make it pretty clear: you don't have bash, and it's required.
It doesn't need to be the "default" shell, but it needs to be installed on the system.

I'll add bash to the list of plugin dependencies.
If you decide to install bash, can you let me know if everything works fine? Thanks

[bruno-]

@ilteris, your output and .tmux.conf file - it all looks good.

For the first command: running ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux you wrote you get regular output without errors.
So this: set option: @resurrect-strategy-irb -> default_strategy is perfectly fine output.

After you manually run ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux in the console
you should have tmux-resurrect bindings working. Can you try if prefix + Ctrl-s key binding works after that?
If that works, then I think the problem is somewhere with tpm (not tmux-resurrect).

Anyway, let me know the update!

[bruno-]

Hi @ilteris,
no, thank you for the valuable feedback on this. We're probably fixing this problem for dozens of users out there that never bothered to open an issue.

The Tmux environment saved! output is good!
I don't know how vim could mess things up here... if you doubt that's the problem why not try prefix + C-s from the new tmux window where vim is not running (but I doubt vim is the problem).

This is the pattern is see here:

• starting resurrect script: fails when run via tmux, succeeds when run directly
• resurrect save script: fails when run via tmux key binding, succeeds when invoked directly

So it seems when tmux runs all these scripts something is not working. All the scripts run with bash, and they have the following she-bang #!/usr/bin/env bash at the top of the files to indicate that.

Maybe tmux has issues with bash? I see you're running zsh by default.

I'll try recreating your environment tomorrow - switching to zsh and using relevant parts of your .tmux.conf.
If you get any clue on this by then, please let me know.

[nick-bull]

Not specifically sure what caused this for me, but deleting and reinstalling plugins didn't help. Instead just copied the file to where it wanted to be from Gtihub:

mkdir $HOME/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/scripts/ && 
  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect/master/scripts/restore.sh -o "$HOME/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/scripts/restore.sh"

Actually, found it best to reinstall too in the end:

rm -r "$HOME"/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect "$HOME"/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect

[suikast42]

For me with WSL2 this works:

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/bin/install_plugins

[Netmage-76]

Hello,

I received the same error message when I downloaded the files (I didn't use the TPM).
Please let me know which information you need, I will be happy to provide you all necessary information.

BR Marcus

[Netmage-76]

Hello Bruno,

thank you very very much for your feedback.

(1) My resurrect.tmux is not in this path, I i use the correct path I see the following:

tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux
env: bash: No such file or directory

(2) No, I use tcsh for all users.

(3) which tmux
/usr/local/bin/tmux

(4) which dirname
/usr/bin/dirname

(5)
set -g base-index 1
set -g pane-base-index 1
set -g display-time 5000
set -g repeat-time 1000
set -g status-keys vi
set -g status-utf8 on
set -g status-interval 1
set -g status-left-length 15
set -g status-right-length 55
set -g history-limit 100000
setw -g utf8 on
setw -g window-status-separator " | "
setw -g window-status-format " #I #W "
setw -g window-status-current-format " /#I/ #W "
setw -g window-status-current-attr default
set-option -g lock-command vlock

set -g status-fg white
set -g status-bg blue
setw -g window-status-current-bg yellow
setw -g window-status-current-fg blue
set -g status-left "#[fg=white,bright,bg=blue] Session #[fg=yellow,bright,bg=blue]#S #[default] |" # session-name
set -g status-right "[ #H ]#[default] %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S #[default] #[default]"

set -g visual-activity on
set -g bell-action any
setw -g monitor-activity on
setw -g automatic-rename off

bind-key k confirm-before kill-server

bind m
set -g mode-mouse on ;
set -g mouse-resize-pane on ;
set -g mouse-select-pane on ;
set -g mouse-select-window on ;
display 'Mouse: ON'

bind M
set -g mode-mouse off ;
set -g mouse-resize-pane off ;
set -g mouse-select-pane off ;
set -g mouse-select-window off ;
display 'Mouse: OFF'

run-shell ~/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux

[Netmage-76]

Hello Bruno,

it was really hard for me as a tcsh user to install a bash :) but I did it.
All is working fine.

Thank you very very much for your help.

BR Marcus

[bruno-]

Haha, I'm glad everything works now.
bash is also added as a dependency to the readme.

@ilteris can you please let us know if installing 'bash' helps? If not, let us know error details.

[ilteris]

Hi Sorry for the late response:

1. Running ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux in tmux, I get back

set option: @resurrect-strategy-irb -> default_strategy

1. I have bash installed, though I am on zsh.

/bin/bash

1. which tmux returns:

/usr/local/bin/tmux

1. which dirname returns:

/usr/bin/dirname

set-option -g default-shell /bin/zsh
# set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh"
set -g prefix C-a #set prefix to CTRL-A
unbind C-b #free up default binding
set -sg escape-time 1 #change default delay 
set -g base-index 1 #make the windows index start at 1 instead 0
set -g pane-base-index 1 #make the pane index start at 1 instead of 0
bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf #prefix r to reload conf file
bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf \; display "Reloaded!"
bind C-a send-prefix #press twice to send it to application running within tmux
#splitting panes
bind | split-window -h
bind - split-window -v
#remapping movement keys to vim movement keys
bind h select-pane -L
bind j select-pane -D
bind k select-pane -U
bind l select-pane -R
#cycle through the windows
bind -r C-h select-window -t :-
bind -r C-l select-window -t :+
# Pane resizing
# START:paneresize
bind -r H resize-pane -L 5 
bind -r J resize-pane -D 5 
bind -r K resize-pane -U 5 
bind -r L resize-pane -R 5
# END:paneresize

# mouse support - set to on if you want to use the mouse
# START:mouse
set -g mode-mouse on 
# END:mouse
set -g mouse-select-pane on 
set -g mouse-resize-pane on 
set -g mouse-select-window on

# Set the default terminal mode to 256color mode
# START:termcolor
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
# END:termcolor

# enable activity alerts
#START:activity
setw -g monitor-activity on
set -g visual-activity on
#END:activity

# set the status line's colors
# START:statuscolor
set -g status-fg white
set -g status-bg black
# END:statuscolor

# set the color of the window list
# START:windowstatuscolor
setw -g window-status-fg cyan 
setw -g window-status-bg default 
setw -g window-status-attr dim
# END:windowstatuscolor

# set colors for the active window
# START:activewindowstatuscolor
setw -g window-status-current-fg white 
setw -g window-status-current-bg red 
setw -g window-status-current-attr bright
# END:activewindowstatuscolor

# pane colors
# START:panecolors
set -g pane-border-fg green
set -g pane-border-bg black
set -g pane-active-border-fg white
set -g pane-active-border-bg yellow
# END:panecolors

# Command / message line
# START:cmdlinecolors
set -g message-fg white
set -g message-bg black
set -g message-attr bright
# END:cmdlinecolors

# Status line left side
# START:statusleft
set -g status-left-length 40 
set -g status-left "#[fg=green]Session: #S #[fg=yellow]#I #[fg=cyan]#P"
# END:statusleft

#START:utf8
set -g status-utf8 on
#END:utf8

# Status line right side
# 15% | 28 Nov 18:15
# START: statusright
set -g status-right "#(~/battery Discharging) | #[fg=cyan]%d %b %R"
# END:statusright

# Update the status bar every sixty seconds
# START:updateinterval
set -g status-interval 60
# END:updateinterval

# Center the window list
# START:centerwindowlist
set -g status-justify centre
# END:centerwindowlist

# enable vi keys.
# START:vikeys
setw -g mode-keys vi
# END:vikeys

# shortcut for synchronize-panes toggle
# START:sync
# bind C-s set-window-option synchronize-panes
# END:sync

# Maximize and restore a pane. Only needed for 1.7 and lower.
# START:max
unbind Up
bind Up new-window -d -n tmp \; swap-pane -s tmp.1 \; select-window -t tmp
# END:max

# START:restore
unbind Down
bind Down last-window \; swap-pane -s tmp.1 \; kill-window -t tmp
# END:restore

# Log output to a text file on demand
# START:pipe-pane
bind P pipe-pane -o "cat >>~/#W.log" \; display "Toggled logging to ~/#W.log"
# END:pipe-pan

# List of plugins
# Supports `github_username/repo` or full git URLs
set -g @tpm_plugins "              \
  tmux-plugins/tpm                 \
  tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible       \
  tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect      \
"
# Other examples:
# github_username/plugin_name    \
# [email protected]/user/plugin     \
# [email protected]/user/plugin  \

# initializes TMUX plugin manager
run-shell ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
run-shell ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux

[ilteris]

Hi Bruno, after I do prefix + Ctrl-s I get

"~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/scripts/save.sh" returned 127 

on the tmux status line
very strange. I think you are right, this problem has to do with tpm.

[bruno-]

Hmm.. yea, this is weird.
So apparently key bindings got set up for you - that's good.
But now the save script returns this error and this is still in the domain of tmux-resurrect plugin.

When you next get a chance, can you check what output does running a save script directly produces.
So just invoke this in the console ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/scripts/save.sh and paste the output if there's any. Thanks

[ilteris]

I just opened up a new window in tmux (prefix + c) and run

~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/scripts/save.sh

and I got back Tmux environment saved!
I go back to my previous window (prefix + 1) and tried the prefix + ctrl-s here but 127 error again.
I am in vim in this window. Maybe vim is messing up things? Thanks for the patience @bruno-

[ilteris]

Hmm, strange things happening for sure, I just committed my dotfiles along with tmux-resurrect and found out that there a lot of txt files committed along with other things. Little inspection revealed that they are indeed tmux sessions that are saved. One example:

pane    0   1   :vim    1   :*  1   :/Users/ilteris/dotfiles/tmux/plugins   1   vim :vim /Users/ilteris/.tmux.conf
pane    1   1   :vim    0   :   1   :/Users/ilteris/Desktop/flux    1   vim :vim gulpfile.js readme.md
pane    1   2   :zsh    0   :   1   :/Users/ilteris/Desktop/flux    1   zsh :
pane    1   3   :zsh    1   :*  1   :/Users/ilteris/dotfiles/vim    1   bash    :
pane    1   4   :egg    0   :-  1   :/Users/ilteris/Desktop/react   1   vim :vim first.html
pane    1   5   :vim    0   :   1   :/Users/ilteris 1   vim :vim /Users/ilteris/.vimrc
window  0   1   1   :*  c83d,159x46,0,0,0
window  1   1   0   :   cebf,118x48,0,0,2
window  1   2   0   :   cec0,118x48,0,0,3
window  1   3   1   :*  cec1,118x48,0,0,4
window  1   4   0   :-  cec2,118x48,0,0,5
window  1   5   0   :   cec3,118x48,0,0,6
state   1   

A lot of these files are empty files. So I am guessing everytime I press save, it generates a txt file and puts in under this dir.

[majutsushi]

You can make debugging the scripts much easier by putting set -x at the top (below the shebang). This will turn on tracing and tell you every line that they execute.

[bruno-]

@ilteris, it's been a while we've talked about this, do you still have this issue?

[ilteris]

@bruno- So, it's still quite mystery. I gave up on it after our conversation. Then months later, I purchased a new laptop since we talked. I pretty much set it up, transferred my dotfiles and voila. Now I do have a working tmux-resurrect! I love it so much.

However, it still doesn't work in the previous laptop. I guess we can close it. Thanks a lot!

[bruno-]

Hi, thank you for providing feedback on this. Also, I'm glad things work for you now.

Yea, since it seems not a lot of other users are having this issue let's close it for now.
If anyone is experiencing this issue and is willing to spend some time investigating, please feel free to reopen and I'd be glad to help.

[ilteris]

Thanks @bruno-!

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Bruno Sutic [email protected]
wrote:

Hi, thank you for providing feedback on this. Also, I'm glad things work
for you now.

Yea, since it seems not a lot of other users are having this issue let's
close it for now.
If anyone is experiencing this issue and is willing to spend some time
investigating, please feel free to reopen and I'd be glad to help.

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[typesAreSpaces]

I had a similar issue; the following did it for me:
https://git.2li.ch/tmux/tpm/commit/e51a3772b5e312900ea416740e14195df7cf4c22

I use a Mac laptop, so I included the address where Tmux is installed before any calls to run-shell
set-environment -g PATH "/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin"