[xmonad] Segfault on startup

Roman Cheplyaka roma at ro-che.info
Thu Mar 6 01:38:53 EST 2008


* Rafael Almeida <almeidaraf at gmail.com> [2008-03-06 02:57:16-0300]
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> > almeidaraf:
> >
> > > Hello,
> >  >
> >  > I've been using xmonad from darcs. Today I pulled the latest version
> >  > and, after compiling xmonad, I found it segfaults during the startup.
> >  > I'm running a debian 4.0 (etch) and I've installed X11 1.4.1 on my
> >  > local user.
> >
> >  Almost certainly this is because you have a partially recompiled xmonad.
> >  Please do a full make clean, then try again.
> >
> >     runhaskell Setup.lhs clean
> >
> >  then rebuild.
> >
> >     http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Help.21_xmonad_just_segfaulted
> >
> >  Same for any config repo you use.
> >
> 
> That doesn't seem the issue because I would always delete xmonad-new
> directory and recreate it using
> 
> $ darcs get xmonad --to-patch=patchname xmonad-new
> 
> in order to find out which patch broke it. Just in case I just did:
> 
> $ darcs get http://code.haskell.org/xmonad --to-patch="Core.hs: add an
> Applicative" xmonad-new
> 
> and compiled it. Sure enough, xmonad segfaulted on startup.

As far as I see from your config, you also use xmonad contrib library.
Have you recompiled it as well?

-- 
Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)
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