Comment 2 for bug 1279533

well, this is quite a catch here, when I start byobu with already existing sessions, it basically expects that you choose what session you would like to restore.

However gnome shell does not offer any "window" where it will print such question and process will just hang.

This is reason why this crashes, it is looking of encoding of stdout, however there is no stdout, so there is no encoding of stdout, I can provide patch that it will not crash, however that is not really solution, just workaround to stop crashing without fixing issue that you would not be able to start byobu this way.

Dustin, what are plans to make byobu gnome-shell compatible? What is your opinion how this situation should be handled?