Cabal update fails

[Simon Peyton Jones]

cabal update -v3 worked.  Maybe it was just transitory. Thanks!

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Herbert Valerio Riedel [mailto:hvriedel at gmail.com]
|  Sent: 07 January 2015 16:18
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones
|  Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: Cabal update fails
|  
|  On 2015-01-07 at 17:12:01 +0100, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
|  > What does this mean (on Linux)?
|  >
|  > Thanks, Simon
|  >
|  > bash$ cabal update
|  > Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
|  > cabal: <socket: 11>: resource vanished
|  
|  Simply a network error while communicating w/ hackage... does `cabal
|  update -v3` give any useful indication?