[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal: : openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

Fernando Henrique Sanches fernandohsanches at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 14:43:26 EDT 2009


Sorry for ressurecting the thread, my I'm having the same problem here.

Deleting the .cabal/config file shows only temporary results, and -v3 isn't
helping:

~/sources/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 % cabal update
Config file /home/fernando/.cabal/config not found.
Writing default configuration to /home/fernando/.cabal/config
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
~/sources/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 % cabal update
cabal: :: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
~/sources/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 % cabal update -v3
cabal: ?: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 x64. ghc 6.10.4

This is the output of the mentioned describe-parsec command, but I don't
know what to do with it:

~/sources/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 % ghc-pkg describe parsec-2.1.0.1
name: parsec
version: 2.1.0.1
license: BSD3
copyright:
maintainer: Daan Leijen <daan at cs.uu.nl>
stability:
homepage: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/parsec.html
package-url:
description: Parsec is designed from scratch as an industrial-strength
parser
             library.  It is simple, safe, well documented (on the package
             homepage), has extensive libraries and good error messages,
             and is also fast.
category: Parsing
author: Daan Leijen <daan at cs.uu.nl>
exposed: True
exposed-modules: Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Language
                 Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Token
                 Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Error
                 Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Char
                 Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Combinator
                 Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Expr
                 Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Perm
                 Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Pos
                 Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Prim
Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec
hidden-modules:
import-dirs: /usr/local/lib/parsec-2.1.0.1/ghc-6.10.4
library-dirs: /usr/local/lib/parsec-2.1.0.1/ghc-6.10.4
hs-libraries: HSparsec-2.1.0.1
extra-libraries:
extra-ghci-libraries:
include-dirs:
includes:
depends: base-4.1.0.0
hugs-options:
cc-options:
ld-options:
framework-dirs:
frameworks:
haddock-interfaces: /usr/local/share/doc/parsec-2.1.0.1/html/parsec.haddock
haddock-html: /usr/local/share/doc/parsec-2.1.0.1/html


Fernando Henrique Sanches


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Mike Pentney <mike.pentney at physics.org>wrote:

> I had a similar problem (on Ubuntu Incontinent Ibex). I'd previously
> installed ghc 6.8.x, and (among other things) cabal. When I decided to
> upgrade to the Haskell platform, I deleted ghc but not my original cabal
> installation.
>
> When I got the error, I deleted my (old) copy of
>
> ~/.cabal/config
>
> and it seemed to fix the problem. I'd assumed something in the config file
> was pointing to a file or directory that had been removed when I uninstalled
> ghc 6.8.x...
>
> HTH
>
> Mike.
>
>
> Job Vranish wrote:
>
>> lol, yep you're right. I'd assumed the haskell platform shipped with the
>> latest parsec, when in fact it does not :) my bad...
>>
>> However, I fixed the cabal issue by installing ghc 6.10.3 and rebuilding
>> the haskell platform. Apparently there is either a compiler issue or
>> incompatibility with 6.10.4 that causes the cabal: : openFile: does not
>> exist (No such file or directory) error.
>>
>> - Job
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com<mailto:
>> tphyahoo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    did you verify parsec-2.1.0.1 exports
>>
>>    Text.Parsec.Language
>>
>>    ?
>>
>>    This might be a parsec 2 versus parsec 3 issue
>>
>>    ghc-pkg describe parsec-2.1.0.1
>>
>>    should tell you the answer to that.
>>
>>
>>
>>    2009/7/27 Job Vranish <jvranish at gmail.com <mailto:jvranish at gmail.com
>> >>:
>>
>>     > I tried updating to ghc-6.10.4 and have exactly the same error.
>>     > Also ghc doesn't seem to be able to find any of the haskell platform
>>     > packages, even though it ghc-pkg finds them just fine.
>>     >
>>     > For example (trimmed for brevity):
>>     >
>>     > ghc-pkg list
>>     > /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.4/./package.conf:
>>     >     Cabal-1.6.0.3,
>>     > ...
>>     >     parsec-2.1.0.1, pretty-1.0.1.0, process-1.0.1.1, random-1.0.0.1,
>>     > ...
>>     >
>>     > ghci -v readModel.hs
>>     > GHCi, version 6.10.4: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
>>     > Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.10.4, for Haskell 98, stage 2
>>    booted by
>>     > GHC version 6.8.2
>>     > Using package config file: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.4/./package.conf
>>     > ...
>>     >
>>     > readModel.hs:9:7:
>>     >     Could not find module `Text.Parsec.Language':
>>     >       locations searched:
>>     >         Text/Parsec/Language.hs
>>     >         Text/Parsec/Language.lhs
>>     > Failed, modules loaded: none.
>>     > ...
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > ghc-pkg finds parsec, but ghci can't find it.
>>     >
>>     > And if I do a cabal -v3 update I get a:
>>     > cabal: 3: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
>>     >
>>     > Anybody figured it out?
>>     >
>>     > - Job Vranish
>>     >
>>     > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Thomas Hartman
>>    <tphyahoo at gmail.com <mailto:tphyahoo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     >>
>>     >> cabal -v3 update
>>     >>
>>     >> will give you a more verbose version of what is going wrong.
>>     >>
>>     >> cabal --help
>>     >>
>>     >> regrettably, cabal --help doesn't tell you this but there is always
>>     >> the man page I suppose.
>>     >>
>>     >> 2009/7/16 Tony Hannan <tonyhannan2 at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:tonyhannan2 at gmail.com>>:
>>     >> > Hello,
>>     >> >
>>     >> > I'm on Ubuntu 8.10.
>>     >> > I installed ghc 6.10.4 (from binary package:
>>     >> > ghc-6.10.4-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2).
>>     >> > I installed haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1 (from source package:
>>     >> > haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1.tar.gz). It contains
>>    cabal-install-0.6.2.
>>     >> >
>>     >> > Then when I run "cabal update", I get the following error:
>>     >> > cabal:  : openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
>>     >> >
>>     >> > Any ideas?
>>     >> >
>>     >> > Thanks,
>>     >> > Tony
>>     >> >
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