On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 07:02:05PM -0600, Deraj Puma wrote:
> I installed ghc from its official package. The system it is installed
> on is a fresh install. I'll post the dmesg at the end of this email.
>
> The problem I am experiencing is that ghc panics whenever I try to run
> it or any of the other programs that use it (runhaskell, ghci,
> runghc). This is the message I receive:
> $ ghc
> ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
> (GHC version 6.12.3 for i386-unknown-openbsd):
> too few bytes. Failed reading at byte position 10861
>
> Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
I'm not sure what you're doing. The error message you mention appears
only in the nofib benchmark suite, which isn't compiled nor included
in the ghc package (IIRC, it's not even in the distfiles for
ghc-6.12).
> I'm not sure how to go about figuring out what the issue is. I'll be
> happy to do any experiments and provide other information.
What's the output of
pkg_info -f ghc
?
Ciao,
Kili
