Package: xmonad Version: 0.11.1-4 Severity: normal I upgraded my laptop and couldn't startx after rebooting the system. Starting X itself went okay but digging in to logs found this in my .xsession-errors:
/home/kaol/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory My .xsession is #! /bin/sh exec xmonad /usr/bin/xmonad tries to execute my xmonad-x86_64-linux but linker won't be able to since I no longer had libffi5 installed on my system. Removing my xmonad-x86_64-linux solved the situation. xmonad built me a new xmonad-x86_64-linux and I could proceed as normal. Looks like I hadn't needed to update my xmonad.hs in a while. It would be nice if xmonad would fail gracefully when a user's own xmonad binary had gone stale. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages xmonad depends on: ii libc6 2.21-4 ii libffi6 3.2.1-4 ii libgmp10 2:6.1.0+dfsg-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.0-1 ii x11-utils 7.7+3 Versions of packages xmonad recommends: pn libghc-xmonad-dev <none> pn libghc-xmonad-doc <none> ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.4+nmu1 Versions of packages xmonad suggests: pn gnome-session-flashback <none> ii suckless-tools [dmenu] 41-1 -- no debconf information
