mallocPlainForeignPtrBytes: size must be >= 0 on Windows #2035

3noch · 2014-08-08T20:53:17Z

Using 1.18.0.5 on Windows 8.1 x64 from the Haskell Platform 2014.2.0 RC4:

> cabal update -v3
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Sending:
GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5

Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
Received:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.6.0
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:52:25 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /packages/index.tar.gz
Content-Length: 0

301 - redirect
Redirecting to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/index.tar.gz ...
Sending:
GET /packages/index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5

Recovering connection to hackage.haskell.org
cabal: mallocPlainForeignPtrBytes: size must be >= 0

3noch · 2014-08-08T20:54:25Z

I've tried turning off Windows firewall, Internet filter, VPN, etc. to no avail.

23Skidoo · 2014-08-09T08:38:49Z

Are you using the 64-bit version of HP?

23Skidoo · 2014-08-09T09:46:38Z

I tried to reproduce with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but everything
works fine on my machine (Windows 7 x64).

On 8 August 2014 22:54, Elliot Cameron [email protected] wrote:

I've tried turning off Windows firewall, Internet filter, VPN, etc. to no
avail.

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3noch · 2014-08-09T14:07:42Z

Yes, HP x86_64.

3noch · 2014-08-09T14:13:31Z

I should mention that standalone cabal doesn't work either, but with a different error:

Desktop> cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.20.0.3
using version 1.20.0.1 of the Cabal library

Desktop> cabal update -v3
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Sending:
GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.20.0.3 (windows; i386)

Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
Received:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.6.0
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 14:11:35 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /packages/index.tar.gz
Content-Length: 0

301 - redirect
Redirecting to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/index.tar.gz ..
Sending:
GET /packages/index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.20.0.3 (windows; i386)

Recovering connection to hackage.haskell.org
cabal: <socket: 368>: invalid argument

23Skidoo · 2014-08-09T16:57:19Z

These errors are likely coming from the network library. @tibbe, do they look familiar to you?

mallocPlainForeignPtrBytes is used inside bytestring (which is used by network to allocate buffers), and the <socket: > error also looks network-related.

23Skidoo · 2014-08-09T16:59:54Z

One thing to try is to recompile cabal-install with profiling enabled and then run cabal update with +RTS -xc to generate a stack trace. This can give us a clue about what is happening.

23Skidoo · 2014-08-09T17:10:50Z

One thing to try is to recompile cabal-install with profiling enabled.

See here for instructions on how to do that. Something like cabal get cabal-install-1.18.0.5 && cd cabal-install-1.18.0.5 && cabal configure --enable-executable-profiling --ghc-options="-auto-all -caf-all" && cabal build should work (HP already comes with profiling versions of all libraries).

3noch · 2014-08-09T18:24:17Z

Should I install the package index manually somehow?

> cabal get cabal-install-1.18.0.5 && cd cabal-install-1.18.0.5 && cabal configure --enable-e
xecutable-profiling --with-ghc-options="-auto-all -caf-all" && cabal build
Warning: The package list for 'hackage.haskell.org' does not exist. Run 'cabal
update' to download it.
cabal: There is no package named 'cabal-install'.
You may need to run 'cabal update' to get the latest list of available
packages.

23Skidoo · 2014-08-09T18:40:03Z

Well, you can always download and unpack the tarball manually if cabal get doesn't work.

tibbe · 2014-08-09T18:49:56Z

@23Skidoo doesn't look familiar to me.

3noch · 2014-08-09T20:50:36Z

cabal-install-1.18.0.5> cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.20.0.3
using version 1.20.0.1 of the Cabal library

cabal-install-1.18.0.5> ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.8.3

cabal-install-1.18.0.5> cabal configure --enable-executable-profiling --ghc-options="-auto-all" --ghc-options="-caf-all" && cabal build
[...]

cabal-install-1.18.0.5> dist\build\cabal\cabal.exe update -v3 +RTS -xc
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Distribution.Client.Config.readConfigFile.handleNotExists,
  called from Distribution.Client.Config.readConfigFile,
  called from Distribution.Client.Config.loadConfig.addBaseConf,
  called from Distribution.Client.Config.loadConfig,
  called from Main.updateAction,
  called from Main.mainWorker,
  called from Main.main
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK), stack trace:
  Distribution.Client.FetchUtils.downloadIndex,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.updateRepo,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.update,
  called from Main.updateAction,
  called from Main.mainWorker,
  called from Main.main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.downloadURI,
  called from Distribution.Client.FetchUtils.downloadIndex,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.updateRepo,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.update,
  called from Main.updateAction,
  called from Main.mainWorker,
  called from Main.main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.downloadURI,
  called from Distribution.Client.FetchUtils.downloadIndex,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.updateRepo,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.update,
  called from Main.updateAction,
  called from Main.mainWorker,
  called from Main.main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.downloadURI,
  called from Distribution.Client.FetchUtils.downloadIndex,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.updateRepo,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.update,
  called from Main.updateAction,
  called from Main.mainWorker,
  called from Main.main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.downloadURI,
  called from Distribution.Client.FetchUtils.downloadIndex,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.updateRepo,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.update,
  called from Main.updateAction,
  called from Main.mainWorker,
  called from Main.main
Sending:
GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5

Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.cabalBrowse,
  called from Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.getHTTP,
  called from Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.downloadURI,
  called from Distribution.Client.FetchUtils.downloadIndex,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.updateRepo,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.update,
  called from Main.updateAction,
  called from Main.mainWorker,
  called from Main.main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.cabalBrowse,
  called from Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.getHTTP,
  called from Distribution.Client.HttpUtils.downloadURI,
  called from Distribution.Client.FetchUtils.downloadIndex,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.updateRepo,
  called from Distribution.Client.Update.update,
  called from Main.updateAction,
  called from Main.mainWorker,
  called from Main.main
Received:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.6.0
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:47:58 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /packages/index.tar.gz
Content-Length: 0

301 - redirect
Redirecting to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/index.tar.gz ...
Sending:
GET /packages/index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5

Recovering connection to hackage.haskell.org
[runs indefinitely...]

Notice that cabal freezes at that point and cannot be closed with Ctrl+C.

23Skidoo · 2014-08-09T21:00:04Z

So it looks like it dies somewhere in the bowels of HTTP/network.

Might be an x64-only issue. Does the 32-bit version of cabal-install work for you?

3noch · 2014-08-09T21:05:08Z

Sadly, I tried that already:

cabal-1.20.0.3-i386-unknown-mingw32> cabal update -v3
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Sending:
GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.20.0.3 (windows; i386)

Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
Received:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.6.0
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:01:55 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /packages/index.tar.gz
Content-Length: 0

301 - redirect
Redirecting to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/index.tar.gz ...
Sending:
GET /packages/index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.20.0.3 (windows; i386)

Recovering connection to hackage.haskell.org
cabal: <socket: 364>: invalid argument

23Skidoo · 2014-08-09T22:36:59Z

Since this seems to happen only on Windows 8.1, maybe you should try experimenting with compatibility settings.

3noch · 2014-08-09T23:10:18Z

Running in compatibility mode for Windows 7 and Vista: same result. Running as admin: same result. I did run the latest 32-bit version that you referenced on a 32-bit Windows 7 VM without any issues.

3noch · 2014-08-09T23:19:37Z

This is bound to make your day: Just ran it on a fresh Windows 8.1 x64 VM and it worked without issue. It still looks like a bug (since cabal is the only program that is having network issues on my host machine), but it's likely some sort of rare networking shenanigans.

3noch · 2014-08-09T23:21:02Z

Just for thoroughness: tested the official release of Haskell Platform 2014.2.0 on my host machine with the same error result.

23Skidoo · 2014-08-10T18:34:20Z

The issue likely affects every Haskell program using HTTP/network. We need to find a way to reproduce it reliably.

3noch · 2014-08-11T00:42:20Z

I'm open to any suggestions. I'm even willing to let someone remote into my machine for a bit to do some step-by-step debugging. Perhaps this bug should be forwarded to a different repository then?

23Skidoo · 2014-08-18T21:38:30Z

@3noch

Can you try compiling and running this test program? It downloads the index-00.tar.gz file to the directory you run it from.

If the bug still happens with my test program, we can then move this ticket to the HTTP library bug tracker.

3noch · 2014-08-18T22:27:47Z

Let me know if you want me to move the ticket myself.

http-test> ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.8.3

http-test> ghc --make Main.hs -o test.exe
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, Main.o )
Linking test.exe ...

http-test> .\test.exe
Trying to download http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz
Sending:
GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5


Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
Received:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.6.0
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:24:44 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /packages/index.tar.gz
Content-Length: 0


301 - redirect
Redirecting to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/index.tar.gz ...
Sending:
GET /packages/index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5


Recovering connection to hackage.haskell.org
test.exe: <socket: 336>: hGetBufSome: failed (Unknown error)

3noch · 2014-08-18T22:30:36Z

More details:

http-test> ghc --make Main.hs -o test.exe -prof -auto-all -caf-all
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, Main.o )
Linking test.exe ...

http-test> .\test.exe +RTS -xc
Trying to download http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz
Sending:
GET /packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5


Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
Received:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.6.0
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:29:21 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /packages/index.tar.gz
Content-Length: 0


301 - redirect
Redirecting to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/index.tar.gz ...
Sending:
GET /packages/index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: hackage.haskell.org
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.18.0.5


Recovering connection to hackage.haskell.org
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_1_0), stack trace:
  Main.main,
  called from :Main.CAF:main
test.exe: <socket: 336>: hGetBufSome: failed (Unknown error)

23Skidoo · 2014-08-18T23:19:04Z

Let me know if you want me to move the ticket myself.

Sure, please do.

23Skidoo · 2014-08-19T21:39:34Z

Moved to haskell/HTTP#72.

3noch mentioned this issue Aug 19, 2014

Failure recovering connection on Windows haskell/HTTP#72

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23Skidoo closed this as completed Aug 19, 2014

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