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llawwehttam

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Registered: 2010-01-19

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[SOLVED] xmonad failing to recompile config - libxext

I just changed my Xmonad config slightly and ran:

xmonad --recompile

and it put out the error:

> xmonad --recompile                                                                            ~
Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: /home/llawwehttam/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Please check the file for errors.

xmonad: xmessage: executeFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

I've tried reinstalling xmonad which gave me the error:

> sudo pacman -S xmonad                                                                         ~
Password: 
warning: xmonad-0.10-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): xmonad-0.10-3

Total Installed Size:   6.82 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking package integrity                                        [########################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                             [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                       [########################################] 100%
unregistering xmonad-0.10 would break the following packages: xmonad-contrib-0.10 (ignoring)
(1/1) upgrading xmonad                                                  [########################################] 100%
Reading package info from stdin ... done.
xmonad-0.10: Warning: haddock-interfaces: /usr/share/doc/xmonad-0.10/html/xmonad.haddock doesn't exist or isn't a file
xmonad-0.10: Warning: haddock-html: /usr/share/doc/xmonad-0.10/html doesn't exist or isn't a directory

Reinstalling xmonad-contrib spits out the same warnings.

I've also tried pacman -Rnc ing xmonad, ghc, xmonad-contrib etc... and reinstalling but I get the same problem.

Any ideas??

If not this may be push I need to try awesome or dwm.

EDIT: I should have probably mentioned, I'm on a 64bit system and use gcc-multilib and binutils-multilib.

EDIT2:

> locate libXxf86vm                                                                         ~
/usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so
/usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1
/usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib32/libXxf86vm.so
/usr/lib32/libXxf86vm.so.1
/usr/lib32/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0

EDIT3:

Solved!!!!

Something got broken somewhere so I reinstalled libxext and lib32-libext from the aur and it seems to work fine now.

Last edited by llawwehttam (2012-03-06 18:23:21)