Hyperland fails to start after update: missing libabsl_log_internal_ch

[sanskarkatyare24]

Hi,

After a full system update on Arch Linux, including Hyperland, I can no longer start Hyperland from the display manager. The system boots to the lock screen but fails to log in. I can switch to a TTY and log in there successfully.

When I try to launch Hyperland manually from the terminal, I get the following error:

Hyperland: error while loading shared libraries: libabsl_log_internal_check_op.so.2501.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Hyperland version:

hyperland 0.49.0r43.gbe6ee6e-1

My system is fully up to date (pacman -Syu was run before this issue).

It seems Hyperland was built against an abseil-cpp version that is no longer available. I suspect a rebuild of Hyperland against the current version of abseil-cpp is needed.

Any suggestions or fixes would be appreciated!

[ClovertaTheTrilobita]

I met the same issue.

My solution is to downgrade abseil-cpp and re2 which requires abseil-cpp temporarily.

# Download the older version from archive
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/a/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp-20250127.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/a/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp-20250127.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/r/re2/re2-1%3A20240702-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/r/re2/re2-1%3A20240702-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig

# Install these two packages
sudo pacman -U ./abseil-cpp-20250127.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U ./re2-1:20240702-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

[sanskarkatyare24]

not works for me
now showing error while loading shared libraries: libhyprutils.so.5: cannnot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sudo find /usr -name 'libhyprutils.so*'
/usr/lib/libhyprutils.so /usr/lib/libhyprutils.so.6 /usr/lib/libhyprutils.so.0.7.1

[ClovertaTheTrilobita]

Yes I also met this problem before lol.

So I downgraded hyprutils which provides libhyprutils.so.* to version 0.5.2.

wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/h/hyprutils/hyprutils-0.5.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/h/hyprutils/hyprutils-0.5.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig

sudo pacman -U ./hyprutils-0.5.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Don't forget to exclude these packages the next time you upgrade😊.

For other dependency problems you can try

pactree hyprland

to list out all dependencies hyprland needed, try downgrading those who cause error might help.

[ROFSIDART]

Hi! I also tried to overcome the screen blocker through your guide, but it didn't help either, the screen goes out for a second and then the screen blocker comes back, what should I do? (Translated through a translator because I do not know English)

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