| Hmm. Here's a shot in the dark: is home home directory mounted via NFS by | any chance?
Direct hit! (for the shot in the dark). Yes it's NFS mounted I think. So what? Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Ben Gamari [mailto:b...@smart-cactus.org] | Sent: 18 August 2017 13:05 | To: Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>; ghc-devs <ghc- | d...@haskell.org> | Subject: Re: Alex install failure | | Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> writes: | | > Friends | > I'm trying to update my installation of alex, on Unix (Ubuntu). But I | > get the dump below It's complaining about a lock file being an invalid | argument (see highlight below). | > If I manually remove the file I get past that, it successfully | > installs tf-random, but the same thing happens on the next package. So | > I can install packages one at a time, but that's silly. | | Hmm. Here's a shot in the dark: is home home directory mounted via NFS by | any chance? | | Cheers, | | - Ben _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
