[xmonad] Segfault on startup

[Don Stewart]

roma:
> * 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?

Ah yes, that needs to be fully cleaned and recompiled.

And then confirm that without any config file it either is ok, or
crashes.

-- Don