Re: can't validate on Linux

Richard Eisenberg writes:

Hi devs,

When I try validating my patch, validation fails with

...

... 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)

Andrzej, it looks like this is another ghc-pkg issue. Do you have any idea what is going on here? Richard, this is on Linux, yes? Cheers, - Ben