Debian 13 libbfd-2.38-system.so not found

[bioleyl]

How are you using the lua-language-server?

Visual Studio Code Extension (sumneko.lua)

Which OS are you using?

Windows WSL

What is the issue affecting?

Other

Expected Behaviour

Language server running without problems

Actual Behaviour

I am in a dev-container using Debian 13 (trixie). Since 3.16.0, the language server is not running anymore.

error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.38-system.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have the libbfd installed but a newer version

> ldconfig -p | grep libbfd
libbfd-2.44-system.so (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.44-system.so

Rolling back to 3.15.0 for the moment did the trick

Reproduction steps

Test it on a Debian

Additional Notes

Great plugin BTW!

Log File

No response

[pyoif]

Same error with fedora 43 with neovim and mason

[capistolero]

same error on Arch Linux

[Qeynos]

same error on debian 13

[taminomara]

I also see this error in GitHub actions, and also on Ubuntu 24.04 under WSL.

[fairbanksscales-dev]

Same error but I am using a remote virtual machine Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS my libbfd is this version.
ldconfig -p | grep libbfd
libbfd-2.42-system.so (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.42-system.so

[SooperADS]

Same error on CachyOS

[dbzix]

Workaround: symlinked 2.38 to 2.42, warning is gone, Lua LS works fine.

[fairbanksscales-dev]

Do I need to change a symbolic link in a folder to do this or is this like changing the build process to link in the different library at the time of build for this project?

[Kuarma]

@dbzix I'm on arch, your fix does not work for me, sadly. I just go back to Lua-language-server 3.15.0 until they fix the issue.
I use mason so:
':MasonInstall lua-language-server@3.15.0'

mason-org/mason-registry#12567 (review)

[brenc]

Same for me on Debian 12.12:

/home/bren/.vscode-server/extensions/sumneko.lua-3.16.0-linux-x64/server/bin/lua-language-server: error while loading shared libraries: libunwind.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It also wants libunwind.so.8. Rolling back to 3.15.0 seems to have fixed this.

[AndrewLuecke]

Can confirm. Fedora 43 regressed overnight on AMD64 platform (didn't test others)

[jellyton255]

Same issue on ubuntu 24.04.