'~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm' returned 2

[franjozen]

This was an issue for me for some time. This error occurred for me when I sourced .tmux.conf. As an error this probably will not occur for many users as it requires cygwin and jimeh/tmux-themepack (or possibly other plugins) and is possibly even depending on git config --global core.autocrlf. I will report it here though as possible users will start their search here. The problem as you might already understand is line endings. I think that this doesn't deserve a code change as much as a mention in https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm/blob/master/docs/tpm_not_working.md.

The solution is to run this command:
find ~/.tmux -type d -name '.git*' -prune -o -type f -print0 | xargs -0 d2u

The command above makes sure that all files have unix line endings, carefully avoiding messing up the .git folders.

Thank you for splendid program!

[bruno-]

Thanks, added this to the docs.

In the future feel free to open a PR for things like this. If the PR is reasonable (like this one), concise, has the same style as the surrounding text it would get merged faster.

[peter-snr]

Same issue for me.
Ubuntu 16.04
tmux 2.1

I tried the solution but it makes no difference, same error. Shame :(

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

After looking again at the docs I found this error.

# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'

I changed it to

run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm'

Now it's fine.

[rohitkrishna094]

The above solution provided by @peter-snr works.

Just to be sure(in case anyone doesn't know), you have to change that above line in ~/.tmux.conf file. This line is at the end(bottom) of the file.