I believe I have found a solution and am posting the following two links for others who might be driven insane by this problem. (ghci worked, then didn't, then did, then didn't). Turns out it seems to be ghc's terminal bindings need some work.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-845199-view-previous.html?sid=93c638d029aac6ffe40df2c6b86684ce which led me here http://trac.haskell.org/haskeline/ticket/105 Thank you intarwebs, and haskell-cafe! tl;dr try changing your TERM environment variable to "xterm". On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Michael Litchard <[email protected]>wrote: > ghc-pkg check > seems fine > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Paulo Tanimoto <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Nothing wrong from: >> >> $ ghc-pkg check >> >> ? >> >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Michael Litchard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Oh, and the distro would be Debian (whatever the latest stable is) >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Michael Litchard <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Linux kether 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 16 16:32:15 UTC 2010 >> x86_64 >> >> GNU/Linux >> >> >> >> >> >> This was working fine for quite awhile, then broke. >> >> Also, I already tried removing the .ghc directory >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Antoine Latter <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> What operating system/cpu are you using? >> >>> >> >>> On Jan 12, 2011 8:08 PM, "Michael Litchard" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> > this just started happening, don't know why. >> >>> > >> >>> > Could anyone offer suggestions, troubleshooting methods? >> >>> > >> >>> > ghci >> >>> > GHCi, version 6.12.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help >> >>> > Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. >> >>> > Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. >> >>> > Loading package base ... linking ... done. >> >>> > Loading package ffi-1.0 ... linking ... done. >> >>> > Segmentation fault >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > >> > >> > >
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