Re: can't validate on Linux

This was a fresh validation run, so make distclean won’t do it. And deleting the file makes no difference. For what it’s worth, I ran with CPUS=1 (instead of my usual CPUS=32) to avoid threading problems. Any other suggestions? Thanks! Richard

On Mar 13, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:

Richard Eisenberg writes:

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Hi devs,

When I try validating my patch, validation fails with

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... Registering library for ghc-prim-0.5.0.0.. ghc-cabal: '/home/rae/ghc/ghc-valid/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-8.3.20170312/bin/ghc-pkg' exited with an error: ghc-pkg: Couldn't open database /home/rae/ghc/ghc-valid/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-8.3.20170312/package.conf.d for modification: {handle: /home/rae/ghc/ghc-valid/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-8.3.20170312/package.conf.d/package.cache.lock}: hLock: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor) make[3]: *** [ghc.mk:990: install_packages] Error 1 make[2]: *** [Makefile:51: install] Error 2 make[1]: *** [bindisttest/ghc.mk:33: test_bindist] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:127: test_bindist] Error 2

This is when I typically `make distclean`. That being said, this does look a bit suspicious. Let me know if cleaning doesn't help.

Cheers,

- Ben