[xmonad] Could not load modules after recent update

[Brandon Allbery]

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 <oneself at gmail.com> 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 <allbery.b at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth, the Arch Wiki warns about this (
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad#Problems_with_finding_shared_libraries_after_update)
>> 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 <platon7pronko at gmail.com>
>> 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
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>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> *Eyal Erez <**oneself at gmail.com* <oneself at gmail.com>*>*
>
> There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.
>
>

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