"Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 0)" about i3status HOT 8 CLOSED

I'm stuck here too, in another issue I read the suggestion of commenting one by one of the "order" block on config to find out what is happening, with all my order block commented I keep seeing the same error.
@morelandjs, did you have any lucky with this?

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What’s the result of i3status --version?

Can you try using the default config?

Can you attach the output of strace -f -s 2048 -tt i3status?

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I'm having the same problem and when I run i3status by itself it outputs this:
i3status: trying to auto-detect output_format setting
i3status: auto-detected "term"
fe80::1187:3b46:85ad:f8e2 | 639.0 GiB | W: down | E: 192.168.1.10 (100 Mbit/s) | UNK 0.00% | 0.01 | 2017-03-02 22:42:36

It seems like it works by itself but doesn't work when it's called by i3bar!

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@yashar-sb-sb Please add output_format = "i3bar" in the general block of the i3status config. If the issue still persists, please run it from a terminal agan and provide that output.

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I'm experiencing the same error. Relevant output of strace -f -s 2048 -tt i3status is,

13:03:14.166716 read(3, "#\n# ~/.config/i3status/config\n#\n\n# common settings for all hosts\n\ngeneral {\n interval = 10\n colors = true\n color_good = "#268bd2"\n color_degraded = "#b58900"\n color_bad = "#dc322f"\n output_format = "i3bar"\n}\n\ntime {\n format = "%a %d %b %R"\n}\n\nload {\n format = "%1min %5min %15min"\n}\n\nbattery 0 {\n format = "%status %percentage %remaining %consumption"\n last_full_capacity = true\n threshold_type = "percentage"\n low_threshold = 10\n}\n\nwireless wlp3s0 {\n format_up = "%essid %quality"\n format_down = "wifi down"\n}\n\norder += "load"\norder += "wireless wlp3s0"\norder += "battery 0"\norder += "time"\n", 8192) = 606
13:03:14.166749 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
13:03:14.166773 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=NULL} ---
13:03:14.175302 +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Any idea what this might be? Thanks!

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Since fully updating my Arch setup I have the same problem as everyone else.

'i3status 2.11 (2017-01-21)'

//EDIT: For whatever reason it works for me now again.

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I am experiencing this issue too.
I am running Arch Linux, i3bar v4.20.1, i3status v2.14

I have done the following suggestion which did not resolve the issue

output_format = "i3bar" in the general block of the i3status config

In my case, it seems to be related to using the path_exists module, which when it fails it's check, results in the error message in i3bar but when run from xterm, it prints the format_down message with no problem.
However i have also seen segfaults from xterm too depending on what combination of path_exists and disk is used.
See segfault.txt for journal entry.

EDIT:
I found my problem with path_exists - i needed to add the path attribute to the module. Still it would be good if it failed in a cleaner way :)

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@sworthiness I created #489 for your specific segfault.

I’m closing this issue, because the error message can happen for a lot of different reasons. People write “I have the same problem”, but chances are you’re having a different problem that results in the same error message.

If you come across this error, start with a fresh config and copy your config over to the fresh file until i3status fails. Then possibly file a bug for the specific issue you tracked down.

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