i3status---input in flex scanner failed about i3status HOT 8 CLOSED

Your config file might be broken. Can you please provide the following files?

• ~/.i3status.conf
• ~/.config/i3status/config
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/i3status/config
• /etc/i3status.conf

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this is my config file http://pastebin.com/0L760NeZ

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That file works for me. Can you run strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log -s 2048 -v -tt i3status, then provide the resulting /tmp/strace.log?

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This is strace.log
http://pastebin.com/T90jsS0w

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From the log:

10673 11:05:23.133368 open("/home/yanboyang/.config/i3status/config", O_RDONLY) = 3
10673 11:05:23.133433 ioctl(3, TCGETS, 0x7ffe082ce2d0) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
10673 11:05:23.133496 fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(8, 3), st_ino=1054357, st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_nlink=2, st_uid=1000, st_gid=1000, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=4096, st_atime=2014/11/14-00:47:37, st_mtime=2016/01/17-10:01:12, st_ctime=2016/01/17-10:01:12}) = 0
10673 11:05:23.133563 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f6b95e8e000
10673 11:05:23.133610 read(3, 0xe386d0, 8192) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)

So, /home/yanboyang/.config/i3status/config is expected to be a config file, but on your machine, it seems to be a directory. Once you address that, i3status should work.

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Hi stapelberg, Thank you so much. config is file not directory, right? Can I change /home/yanboyang/.config/i3status/config to point a file?

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I don’t quite understand the question. The intended state is that cat ~/.config/i3status/config will print a configuration file, not the error message cat: config: Is a directory.

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ok, understand. Thanks

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