8 Dec
                
                    2017
                
            
            
                8 Dec
                
                '17
                
            
            
            
        
    
                11:46 a.m.
            
        Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs 
| that your user doesn't have a valid group, which is quite odd. What | does the `id` command say?
simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/tmp$ id uid=501(simonpj) gid=1001 groups=1001,27(sudo)
Indeed it looks like your group doesn't have an entry in /etc/group. Quite odd. Perhaps this was due to the upgrade? Is there an entry for group id 501 in /etc/group? Cheers, - Ben