tpm no longer working

[justmytwospence]

tpm stopped working for me two days ago, and for the life of me I haven't been able to figure out why. No errors get thrown when I source my .tmux.conf, and everything else in my config works like it used to. None of the plugins are working, however, and the C-I and C-U keybindings for installing/updating them also do nothing. I am using homebrew installed tmux 1.9a. Is anyone else experiencing this?

[bruno-]

Hey,
did you try deleting all the plugins and re-installing them?

rm -rf ~/.tmux
# now re-install tpm and all the plugins again

How does your tmux.conf look like?

[justmytwospence]

Yep - I've tried deleting and reinstalling. Here is my tmux.conf. One unusual thing: I use a dotfile management system so tpm is actually a submodule in a git repo somewhere, and then it gets symlinked to ~/.tmux/plugins. This has been working fine for months though, up until now.

[justmytwospence]

I have confirmed it to not work even when things are not symlinked. Following the install directions to the letter still does not result in any functionality, in iTerm 2.0 or OSX Terminal 2.4.

[justmytwospence]

This seems to be a very strange bug. I restarted my computer, and everything started working fine. The next time restarted, things stopped working again. This seems to be the same thing that was happening in this issue: #8

[bruno-]

One unusual thing: I use a dotfile management system so tpm is actually a submodule in a git repo somewhere

I don't think this should be a problem as long as the script is accessible from this path ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm you specified with run-shell in tmux.conf.

One unusual thing related to your tmux.conf might be that you place set-option -g @tpm_plugins and run-shell "~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm" at the beginning, while it's recommended to place them at the bottom.
This shouldn't cause this much trouble for tpm to stop working, but for example, I think the options @copycat_search_C-i and @copycat_search_G-g won't work. The reason for this is that copycat plugin is sourced before the options are set.

[bruno-]

A couple other things to try:

• what is the output of the following shell command inside tmux $ echo $TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH?
• your linux/unix username does not have spaces in it right? For example, the path that is output with: ls ~ does not contain spaces?
• when in tmux, how do you check if plugins are installed or not? In your first post you mentioned hitting C-i to install plugins. That might be a typo, but the correct keys are prefix + shift + i (not ctrl-i).
• when inside tmux, can you please send me the output of the tmux list-keys command (in a gist)? Ideally it would be good to see this output for the scenario when tmux plugins are not loading.

[justmytwospence]

• TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH is not set in my environment.
• Username does not have spaces
• I am indeed using C-b C-I
• The plugins are currently broken, here is the list-keys: https://gist.github.com/justmytwospence/9e8d6201037549d0b458

EDIT: for the record, here are the list keys when it randomly decides to work: https://gist.github.com/justmytwospence/3cb1c7f284c150f4791f

[bruno-]

TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH is not set in my environment.

Okay, then plugins won't be loaded for sure. I've never had a case where this wasn't working.. not sure what it could be.

I am indeed using C-b C-I

I'm confused, is this a typo? Were you thinking C-b + I

As for the difference with working vs non-working list-key output, yea - apparently tpm key bindings are set for the working scenario:

I run-shell "/Users/sgb/.tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts/install_plugins.sh >/dev/null 2>&1"
U run-shell /Users/sgb/.tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts/update_plugin_prompt.sh

Interestingly, even in the working scenario list-keys output, I don't see key bindings for other plugins that you have in your tmux.conf, like tmux-yank or tmux-copycat.

Unfortunately, I don't have an idea what could be the issue here.

[justmytwospence]

Yes that was a typo, I meant C-b I. I think I've narrowed down the problem to the tmux zsh plugin (maybe). After removing it, things are mostly working.

[bruno-]

Cool. Please let me know your findings and I'll document if there's a zsh plugin that clashes with tpm.

[gabrielalmeida]

Exactly the same happening here, same setup, no keybindings, running script manually allow me to create prefix + I and prefix + U keybindings but plugins doesn't seem to be installed/working. Restarting or removing tmux zsh plugin doesn't solve this for me.

[andradei]

👍 Same issue for me, and I don't have zsh tmux plugin enabled.

[bruno-]

@andradei care post the output of the commands from this comment

[andradei]

@bruno- For me I had to install the latest version of tmux. Ubuntu's tmux (from a canonical PPA) isn't updated. Everything works nicely now.

[bruno-]

@justmytwospence I'm trying to document issues ppl were having with tpm. Is this the zsh plugin that was causing problems for you?

[justmytwospence]

@bruno- I'm actually not very sure that it was the zsh plugin. Unfortunately it turned out to be one of those things that just started working again after fiddling with a lot of things.

[bruno-]

Ok, thanks for the reply anyway.
This has been a long running thread and it seems almost everyone got the tpm running now, so I'm gonna close the issue.

[nbigaouette]

My tmux wasn't loading tpm. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04. I used pi-rho's ppa (https://launchpad.net/~pi-rho/+archive/ubuntu/dev) to get tmux 2.1.
The problem I had was that 2.1 is called tmux-next in this ppa, as to not conflict with Ubuntu's official one. I had to remove the official one and create a symbolic link: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/tmux-next /usr/bin/tmux. Then tpm started working.

[selurvedu]

Recently I've encountered a similar issue. I checked everything and it turned out that the run-shell line in the config file was ignored by tmux completely, even though the command worked fine when I invoked it manually. In a few minutes after discovering this I found the cause — that was a backslash at the end of the comment line. As far as I understand, it expands the comment block to the following line, no matter if the line begins with a # or not. Hope this might help someone someday. :)

[maiermic]

I also had this issue when I installed tmux from source. It worked after I installed

sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git python-setuptools ruby;
sudo apt-get install build-essential libevent-dev libncurses-dev;

and installed tmux from source again.