Alex install failure

[Simon Peyton Jones]

sudo rpcinfo -p
   program vers proto   port  service
    100000    4   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    3   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    4   udp    111  portmapper
    100000    3   udp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
    100024    1   udp  56434  status
    100024    1   tcp  34797  status
simonpj at cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD$

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Ben Gamari [mailto:ben at smart-cactus.org]
|  Sent: 28 August 2017 13:36
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>; Herbert Valerio Riedel
|  <hvriedel at gmail.com>; ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
|  Subject: RE: Alex install failure
|  
|  Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org> writes:
|  
|  > |  note that you mistyped "lockd" (aka "lock daemon") as "locd"
|  >
|  > Oh, sorry about mistyping
|  >
|  > simonpj at cam-05-unx:~/tmp$ ps -Af | grep lockd
|  > root       140     2  0  2016 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd]
|  > simonpj   7882  1184  0 13:22 pts/7    00:00:00 grep lockd
|  >
|  Interesting; no lock daemon.
|  
|  > |  also, the output of "rpcinfo -p" would be interesting to know
|  >
|  > simonpj at cam-05-unx:~/tmp$ rpcinfo -p
|  > Command 'rpcinfo' is available in '/usr/sbin/rpcinfo'
|  > The command could not be located because '/usr/sbin' is not included in
|  the PATH environment variable.
|  > This is most likely caused by the lack of administrative privileges
|  associated with your user account.
|  > rpcinfo: command not found
|  >
|  Silly me; are you able to run `sudo rpcinfo -p`?
|  
|  Cheers,
|  
|  - Ben