Alex install failure

[Simon Peyton Jones]

| 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:ben at smart-cactus.org]
| Sent: 18 August 2017 13:05
| To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.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:
| 
| > 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