In local.glasgow-haskell-bugs, I wrote:
>On several Linux machines
>where my home directory is mounted by NFS from a Solaris machine,
>I get the following behaviour both in ghc and ghci:
>
>Directory.getDirectoryContents will throw an error on any directory in
>"NFS-space", so even *calling* ghc or ghci causes problems:
Okay, Michael W. and I tracked this s*cker down: There's a known breakage
in glibc, which is fixed at least in the current ver. 2.2.2 (maybe earlier).
Sometimes NFS will cause this error and readdir(2) -- which is used by
Directory.getDirectoryContents! -- will fail.
Our suggestions to Linux-owners with NFS mounts from non-Linux machines:
Upgrade to a recent glibc. It's not GHC's fault.
Although the arising problem is sometimes reported as being rather
non-deterministic, it proved quite "reliable" in our department where
several machines consistently show the faulty behaviour.
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