> /home/alichtman/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/__init__.py
This is not a bug in libffi. You have a local gi python module on your
path which depends on library versions other than those which are
current in 20.10.
It is inadvisable to put modules on your default python path that shadow
system modules.
** Changed in: libffi (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1895360
Title:
Terminal (and other default Ubuntu apps) won't launch due to missing
libffi.so.7 in 20.10
Status in libffi package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
When I launch Terminal, I see the following error (st and urxvt are
still launchable, as are Discord and Spotify, among others):
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic systemd[1918]: Started Application launched by
gnome-shell.
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic gnome-shell[2191]: g_variant_unref: assertion 'value
!= NULL' failed
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic gnome-shell[2191]: g_variant_unref: assertion 'value
!= NULL' failed
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic gnome-shell[18808]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic gnome-shell[18808]: File "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal",
line 9, in <module>
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic gnome-shell[18808]: from gi.repository import
GLib, Gio
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic gnome-shell[18808]: File
"/home/alichtman/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 42,
in <module>
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic gnome-shell[18808]: from . import _gi
Sep 11 18:22:39 arctic gnome-shell[18808]: ImportError: libffi.so.7: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
And then Terminal never launches.
libffi.so.8 is found in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/, but libffi.so.7 is
missing.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla (development branch)
Release: 20.10
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