On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Ben Gamari <b...@smart-cactus.org> wrote:
> Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> writes: > > 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? > I was thinking CIFS, but pretty much the same issue. Or NTFS via FUSE module. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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