There seems to be some trouble with the debian ghci on sparc64. I can dredge up more information if given an idea of what to look for. $ ghci ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.2.2, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base ... linking ... done. zsh: 7796 segmentation fault ghci -- wli