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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Friends<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’m trying to update my installation of alex, on Unix (Ubuntu). But I get the dump below<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It’s complaining about a lock file being an invalid argument (see highlight below).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Code">cabal install alex<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Resolving dependencies...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Configuring tf-random-0.5...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Building tf-random-0.5...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Failed to install tf-random-0.5<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Build log ( /home/simonpj/.cabal/logs/tf-random-0.5.log ):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">cabal: Entering directory '/tcabal mp/cabal-tmp-26141/tf-random-0.5'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Configuring tf-random-0.5...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Building tf-random-0.5...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Preprocessing library tf-random-0.5...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">[1 of 4] Compiling System.Random.TF.Gen ( src/System/Random/TF/Gen.hs, dist/build/System/Random/TF/Gen.o )<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">[2 of 4] Compiling System.Random.TF.Init ( src/System/Random/TF/Init.hs, dist/build/System/Random/TF/Init.o )<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="Code">src/System/Random/TF/Init.hs:94:5: warning: [-Wdeprecations]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code"> In the use of ‘bitSize’ (imported from Data.Bits):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code"> Deprecated: "Use 'bitSizeMaybe' or 'finiteBitSize' instead"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code"> |<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">94 | | bitSize n > 64 = error "mkTFGen: case where size of Int > 64 not implemented"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code"> | ^^^^^^^<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">[3 of 4] Compiling System.Random.TF ( src/System/Random/TF.hs, dist/build/System/Random/TF.o )<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">[4 of 4] Compiling System.Random.TF.Instances ( src/System/Random/TF/Instances.hs, dist/build/System/Random/TF/Instances.o )<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Creating package registration file:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">/tmp/pkgConf-tf-random-05965166491189641421.5<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">Installing library in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">/home/simonpj/.cabal/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.2.1/tf-random-0.5-ABDhxe3mXYlHUEE5hzgewx<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Registering tf-random-0.5...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Code"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">cabal: '/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg' exited with an error:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Code"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">ghc-pkg: Couldn't open database<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Code"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">/home/simonpj/.ghc/x86_64-linux-8.2.1/package.conf.d for modification:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Code"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">{handle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Code"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">/home/simonpj/.ghc/x86_64-linux-8.2.1/package.conf.d/package.cache.lock}:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Code"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">hLock: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">cabal: Leaving directory '/tmp/cabal-tmp-26141/tf-random-0.5'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">QuickCheck-2.10.0.1 depends on tf-random-0.5 which failed to install.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">alex-3.2.1 depends on tf-random-0.5 which failed to install.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">tf-random-0.5 failed during the final install step. The exception was:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">ExitFailure 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Code">simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD$<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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