Public bug reported:
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
** Affects: libffi (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Terminal (and other default Ubuntu apps) won't launch due to missing
libffi.so.7
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