I had the same issue, using the ghc 6.10.4 "generic linux" tarball on Ubuntu Jaunty x86_64. I attempted to install a newer Haskell Platform over the older one. I'm not sure what causes the issue. After several attempts to remedy it without success, I ended up completely reinstalling ghc and ghc-related things on my system, and not using the Haskell Platform. Drastic, but I don't get those cabal errors any more. Regards, Bradford Larsen On Aug 31, 2009 2:43 PM, "Fernando Henrique Sanches" < fernandohsanches@gmail.com> wrote: Sorry for ressurecting the thread, my I'm having the same problem here. Deleting the .cabal/config file shows only temporary results, and -v3 isn't helping: ~/sources/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 % cabal update Config file /home/fernando/.cabal/config not found. Writing default configuration to /home/fernando/.cabal/config Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org ~/sources/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 % cabal update cabal: :: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) ~/sources/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 % cabal update -v3 cabal: ?: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 x64. ghc 6.10.4 This is the output of the mentioned describe-parsec command, but I don't know what to do with it: ~/sources/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 % ghc-pkg describe parsec-2.1.0.1 name: parsec version: 2.1.0.1 license: BSD3 copyright: maintainer: Daan Leijen <daan@cs.uu.nl> stability: homepage: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/parsec.html package-url: description: Parsec is designed from scratch as an industrial-strength parser library. It is simple, safe, well documented (on the package homepage), has extensive libraries and good error messages, and is also fast. category: Parsing author: Daan Leijen <daan@cs.uu.nl> exposed: True exposed-modules: Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Language Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Token Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Error Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Char Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Combinator Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Expr Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Perm Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Pos Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Prim Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec hidden-modules: import-dirs: /usr/local/lib/parsec-2.1.0.1/ghc-6.10.4 library-dirs: /usr/local/lib/parsec-2.1.0.1/ghc-6.10.4 hs-libraries: HSparsec-2.1.0.1 extra-libraries: extra-ghci-libraries: include-dirs: includes: depends: base-4.1.0.0 hugs-options: cc-options: ld-options: framework-dirs: frameworks: haddock-interfaces: /usr/local/share/doc/parsec-2.1.0.1/html/parsec.haddock haddock-html: /usr/local/share/doc/parsec-2.1.0.1/html Fernando Henrique Sanches On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Mike Pentney <mike.pentney@physics.org> wrote: > > I had a simil... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe