Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 1) on fresh install with barebones config file

[Joseph Morgan]

Hey there,

Just checking out this project and I'm having some issues. On Arch linux with i3-gapps.

I installed via pip3 install git+https://github.com/enkore/i3pystatus.git and copied the config file in the docs just for testing. Initially it seemed to work, but the bar was full of errors mentioning modules that weren't installed. I pip installed the mentioned modules (colour and netifaces), and suddenly I'm getting nothing but Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 1) in that status bar.

I've tried:
pip uninstall i3pystatus, pip uninstall colour and pip uninstall netifaces followed by a reinstall via the pip3 command. No change in the issue. I also cleared everything out of the config file except for:
from i3pystatus import Status
status = Status()
status.run()
And I'm gettin the same error.

If I execute my config file in the command line, the error that I get says:
Traceback (most recent call last): File ".i3/i3status.py", line 1, in <module> from i3pystatus import Status File "/home/joe/.dotfiles/i3/.i3/i3pystatus.py", line 1, in <module> from i3pystatus import Status ImportError: cannot import name 'Status' from partially initialized module 'i3pystatus' (most likely due to a circular import) (/home/joe/.dotfiles/i3/.i3/i3pystatus.py)

Please let me know if there is any more info I can provide that would be helpful.

[enkore]

You can't have a file named "i3pystatus.py" next to your config (/home/joe/.dotfiles/i3/.i3/i3pystatus.py) and the config cannot be named "i3pystatus.py".