For what it's worth, the Arch Wiki warns about this ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad#Problems_with_finding_shared_librari...) and gives solutions. The way Arch manages its Haskell packages causes problems like this. On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM Platon Pronko wrote:

On 2024-10-20 19:46, Eyal Erez wrote:

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Hi,

I use xmonad on arch linux. I've recently updated my system, as one often does, and now my xmonad.hs is failing to compile and I am failing to start xmonad.

Might not be very helpful, but I'm also on Arch and I moved from using system-provided Haskell packages for my xmonad needs.

System-provided packages are upgraded almost on every update, and xmonad has to be recompiled every time, and if you forget to recompile it then after a reboot your DE won't work and you have to drop to a tty to fix that.

Also, there is a truckload of haskell packages and they clutter up the update logs - removing them freshened up things considerably.

So I can't help you with this particular problem, but I can help you transition to stack-based install, which has the nice benefit of not breaking on system updates. (however, it has the downside of taking 13GB of space in the ~/.stack/ folder, YMMV)

-- Best regards, Platon Pronko PGP 2A62D77A7A2CB94E _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

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I upgrade weekly, but I'm a dev so I'm expected to keep on top of `master`. On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 8:39 AM Eyal Erez wrote:

I've tried some of the suggested solutions in the arch linux wiki, but they do not seem to work.

I built everything from scratch using stack and seems to be back to working. Thank you for the suggestion.

I built xmonad and xmonad-contrib off of the v0.18.0 and v0.18.1 tags respectively. How and how often do you upgrade your installation?

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM Brandon Allbery wrote:

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For what it's worth, the Arch Wiki warns about this ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad#Problems_with_finding_shared_librari...) and gives solutions. The way Arch manages its Haskell packages causes problems like this.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM Platon Pronko wrote:

...

On 2024-10-20 19:46, Eyal Erez wrote:

...

Hi,

I use xmonad on arch linux. I've recently updated my system, as one often does, and now my xmonad.hs is failing to compile and I am failing to start xmonad.

Might not be very helpful, but I'm also on Arch and I moved from using system-provided Haskell packages for my xmonad needs.

System-provided packages are upgraded almost on every update, and xmonad has to be recompiled every time, and if you forget to recompile it then after a reboot your DE won't work and you have to drop to a tty to fix that.

Also, there is a truckload of haskell packages and they clutter up the update logs - removing them freshened up things considerably.

So I can't help you with this particular problem, but I can help you transition to stack-based install, which has the nice benefit of not breaking on system updates. (however, it has the downside of taking 13GB of space in the ~/.stack/ folder, YMMV)

-- Best regards, Platon Pronko PGP 2A62D77A7A2CB94E _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh allbery.b@gmail.com _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

-- *Eyal Erez <**oneself@gmail.com* *>*

There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh allbery.b@gmail.com

I use cabal, not stack. I have an upgrade script but it basically builds xmonad exe, X11 lib, xmonad lib, xmonad-contrib lib, then my config. https://github.com/geekosaur/xmonad.hs/blob/hilfy-2023/update.sh On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 10:35 AM Eyal Erez wrote:

Got it.

And what do you do to fully rebuild? git pull [...]; stack upgrade; stack install?

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:13 PM Brandon Allbery wrote:

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I upgrade weekly, but I'm a dev so I'm expected to keep on top of `master`.

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 8:39 AM Eyal Erez wrote:

...

I've tried some of the suggested solutions in the arch linux wiki, but they do not seem to work.

I built everything from scratch using stack and seems to be back to working. Thank you for the suggestion.

I built xmonad and xmonad-contrib off of the v0.18.0 and v0.18.1 tags respectively. How and how often do you upgrade your installation?

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM Brandon Allbery wrote:

...

For what it's worth, the Arch Wiki warns about this ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad#Problems_with_finding_shared_librari...) and gives solutions. The way Arch manages its Haskell packages causes problems like this.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM Platon Pronko wrote:

...

On 2024-10-20 19:46, Eyal Erez wrote:

...

Hi,

I use xmonad on arch linux. I've recently updated my system, as one often does, and now my xmonad.hs is failing to compile and I am failing to start xmonad.

Might not be very helpful, but I'm also on Arch and I moved from using system-provided Haskell packages for my xmonad needs.

System-provided packages are upgraded almost on every update, and xmonad has to be recompiled every time, and if you forget to recompile it then after a reboot your DE won't work and you have to drop to a tty to fix that.

Also, there is a truckload of haskell packages and they clutter up the update logs - removing them freshened up things considerably.

So I can't help you with this particular problem, but I can help you transition to stack-based install, which has the nice benefit of not breaking on system updates. (however, it has the downside of taking 13GB of space in the ~/.stack/ folder, YMMV)

-- Best regards, Platon Pronko PGP 2A62D77A7A2CB94E _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh allbery.b@gmail.com _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

-- *Eyal Erez <**oneself@gmail.com* *>*

There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh allbery.b@gmail.com

-- *Eyal Erez <**oneself@gmail.com* *>*

There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh allbery.b@gmail.com