ghcup failed

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Dear devs
I wanted to install GHC 8.10 on my WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) computer.  So I went here
https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/
and followed the instructions (the curl … command).  There was a long pause then

[ Info  ] verifying digest of: ghc-8.10.4-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.xz

[ Info  ] Unpacking: ghc-8.10.4-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.xz to /tmp/ghcup-khiegA

[ Info  ] Installing GHC (this may take a while)

[ Error ] BuildFailed failed in dir "/tmp/ghcup-khiegA": NonZeroExit 2 "make" ["install"]

    Check the logs at "/home/simonpj/.ghcup/logs" and the build directory "/tmp/ghcup-khiegA" for more clues.

    Make sure to clean up "/tmp/ghcup-khiegA" afterwards.

"_eghcup --cache install ghc recommended" failed!
I looked in the logs as suggested, and found this in the tail of ghc-make.log

Installing library in /home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/libiserv-8.10.4

"utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal-bindist" copy compiler stage2 "strip" '' '/home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4' '/home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4' '/home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/share/doc/ghc-8.10.4/html/libraries' 'v p dyn'

Installing library in /home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/ghc-8.10.4

"/home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/bin/ghc-pkg" --force --global-package-db "/home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/package.conf.d" update rts/dist/package.conf.install

ghc-pkg: Couldn't open database /home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/package.conf.d for modification: {handle: /home/simonpj/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/package.conf.d/package.cache.lock}: hLock: invalid argument (Invalid argument)

ghc.mk:967: recipe for target 'install_packages' failed

make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1

Makefile:51: recipe for target 'install' failed

make: *** [install] Error 2
So I seem to be stuck.  Any ideas?  I feel embarrassed not to be able to install GHC 😊.
Simon
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