| Hmm. Here's a shot in the dark: is home home directory mounted via NFS by
| any chance?
Direct hit! (for the shot in the dark). Yes it's NFS mounted I think. So what?
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Ben Gamari [mailto:ben@smart-cactus.org]
| Sent: 18 August 2017 13:05
| To: Simon Peyton Jones ; ghc-devs
| Subject: Re: Alex install failure
|
| Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs writes:
|
| > Friends
| > 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?
|
| Cheers,
|
| - Ben
