Alex install failure

[Ara Adkins]

I don’t disagree in the slightest! It’s just an easy way to find out if that is the cause of what you’re seeing or if it’s something deeper. 

For what it’s worth I’ve tried to replicate this on NFS to no avail, but it’s not like the mount I was using was under much load. 

_ara

> On 19 Aug 2017, at 00:37, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> Maybe so, but it's really not a good experience for GHC/Cabal users.   If aptget did this, people would bleat loudly.
> 
> Simon
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Ara Adkins [mailto:me at ara.io]
> | Sent: 19 August 2017 00:07
> | To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
> | Cc: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>; ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
> | Subject: Re: Alex install failure
> | 
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> | 
> | NFS can be pretty dodgy with transient files due to latency. Sometimes
> | the delete takes appreciable time after the command is issued so the lock
> | file might just be persisting. I’d try installing into a cabal sandbox on
> | a local drive and see if the same issue crops up.
> | 
> | _ara
> | 
> | > On 18 Aug 2017, at 23:43, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
> | wrote:
> | >
> | > | 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
> | >
> | >
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