LuaLS / LuaLS/vscode-lua

Lua LSP no longer works on latest Arch Linux

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Description

### Which OS are you using?

Linux (Arch-based)

### Expected Behaviour

Language server starts and analyzes my code.

### Actual Behaviour

Language server fails to start with error

~/.vscode/extensions/sumneko.lua-3.16.0-linux-x64/server/bin/lua-language-server: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.38-system.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[Error - 1:16:53 PM] Client Lua: connection to server is erroring.

### Reproduction steps

1. Latest Arch
2. Latest VSCode
3. Install LuaLSP
4. See error.

### Additional Notes

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure on latest Arch Linux with VSCode and the LuaLSP extension, then inspect the reported lua-language-server binary and its missing libbfd-2.38-system.so dependency. Done means the language server starts and analyzes Lua code without the shared-library error.

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Assessment

Tech stack
arch-linux, lua, vscode
Domain
devtools, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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