Lgi FFI error on startup

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Output of awesome --version:

awesome v4.3 (Too long)
 • Compiled against Lua 5.3.6 (running with Lua 5.3)
 • D-Bus support: ✔
 • execinfo support: ✔
 • xcb-randr version: 1.6
 • LGI version: 0.9.2

How to reproduce the issue:
Start awesome on fully updated Arch Linux. It should start.

❯ awesome -k
✔ Configuration file syntax OK.

Actual result:
It fails to start with this log:

unko@ryzen ~ (master) 
❯ Xephyr :1 &
unko@ryzen ~ (master) 
❯ DISPLAY=:1 awesome
error while running function!
stack traceback:
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/ffi.lua:31: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/class.lua:21: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/namespace.lua:18: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/init.lua:47: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi.lua:19: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/timer.lua:60: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/vicious/init.lua:35: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/home/unko/.config/awesome/rc.lua:13: in main chunk
error: /usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/ffi.lua:31: attempt to index a boolean value (local 'gobject')
error while running function!
stack traceback:
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/ffi.lua:31: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/class.lua:21: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/namespace.lua:18: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/init.lua:47: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi.lua:19: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/color.lua:53: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/init.lua:10: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua:6: in main chunk
error: /usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/ffi.lua:31: attempt to index a boolean value (local 'gobject')
error while running function!
stack traceback:
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/ffi.lua:31: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/class.lua:21: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/namespace.lua:18: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/init.lua:47: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi.lua:19: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/color.lua:53: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/usr/share/awesome/lib/gears/init.lua:10: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua:6: in main chunk
error: /usr/share/lua/5.3/lgi/ffi.lua:31: attempt to index a boolean value (local 'gobject')
2024-04-22 23:27:05 E: awesome: main:866: couldn't find any rc file

Expected result:

It should with no problem.

Latest awesome WM master also has this issue during compilation:

unko@ryzen ~/repos/awesome/build (master) 
❯ make
[  0%] Building C object CMakeFiles/lgi-check.dir/build-utils/lgi-check.c.o
[  0%] Linking C executable lgi-check
[  0%] Built target lgi-check
[  0%] Checking for LGI...
Building for Lua 5.4.
Found lgi 0.9.2.
Error: /usr/share/lua/5.4/lgi/ffi.lua:31: attempt to index a boolean value (local 'gobject')


       WARNING
       =======

 The lgi check failed.
 Awesome needs lgi to run.
 Add AWESOME_IGNORE_LGI=1 to your environment to continue.


make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/lgi-check-run.dir/build.make:71: CMakeFiles/lgi-check-run] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:30687: CMakeFiles/lgi-check-run.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2

I am unsure what to check for, maybe my GObject stuff is somehow broken? But I don't know.

I think it might be related to this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2159800#p2159800

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Never mind then, the issue is gone with the downgrade, so I assume it's a problem somewhere in GIO/GObject upstream...