[xmonad] Segfault on startup

[Don Stewart]

almeidaraf:
> 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.

Hmm, ok. We'll need to know more about what your setup is.

What OS/arch, what GHC version, what gcc version?
And can you attach a full log of the build?

-- Don