Oh, thanks for pointing that out. It's not exactly clear to me how this situation arose, but I'm glad it's just a me problem.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libffi in Ubuntu. 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libffi/+bug/1895360/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
