Bug #8278
awesome window manager is missing lgi library for Lua 5.3
Start date:
2017-05-27
Due date:
% Done:
0%
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Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage
Description
Just installed awesome
window manager and I am unable to log into it via LightDM. Executing awesoeme
via xterm
session brings following error:
error while running function! stack traceback: [C]: in function 'require' /usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/color.lua:15: in main chunk [C]: in function 'require' /usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/init.lua:10: in main chunk [C]: in function 'require' /usr/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua:2: in main chunk error: /usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/color.lua:15: module 'lgi' not found: no field package.preload['lgi'] no file '/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi.lua' no file '/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/init.lua' no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/lgi.lua' no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/lgi/init.lua' no file './lgi.lua' no file './lgi/init.lua' no file '/export/home/newman/.config/awesome/lgi.lua' no file '/export/home/newman/.config/awesome/lgi/init.lua' no file '/etc/xdg/awesome/lgi.lua' no file '/etc/xdg/awesome/lgi/init.lua' no file '/usr/share/awesome/lib/lgi.lua' no file '/usr/share/awesome/lib/lgi/init.lua' no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/64/lgi.so' no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/64/loadall.so' no file './64/lgi.so' no file '/export/home/newman/.config/awesome/64/lgi.so' no file '/etc/xdg/awesome/64/lgi.so' no file '/usr/share/awesome/lib/64/lgi.so' 2017-05-27 18:01:45 E: awesome: main:774: couldn't find any rc file
It seems that library/lua/lgi-53
package is missing from the distribution.
Updated by Michal Nowak about 3 years ago
Dariusz added library/lgi-53
and awesome now works fine. We can close this one.