mmap() returned memory outside 2Gb - GHC on ubuntu hardy amd64

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 11:30:41 EST 2008


Rahul Kapoor wrote:
> I cannot get GHC to work on a fresh ubuntu hardy machine:
> 
> On installing using the package manager I get an error when
> running ghci:
> 
>  "R_X86_64_32S relocation out of range:" - similar to
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2013, but that bug is
> FreeBSD specific.
> 
> I decided to install the binary distribution: after which running
> ghci fails with error:
> 
> GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
> ghc: internal error: mmap() returned memory outside 2Gb
>     (GHC version 6.10.1 for x86_64_unknown_linux)
>     Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
> Aborted
> 
> 
> I Added issues #2779 to Trac for the second case.
> 
> Are there any possible work arounds for these problems?

Are you running under Xen by any chance?

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2512

Cheers,
	Simon


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