[GHC] #1483: vista: GHCi not loading 80% of the time

[GHC]

#1483: vista: GHCi not loading 80% of the time
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    Reporter:  guest    |        Owner:  simonmar
        Type:  bug      |       Status:  reopened
    Priority:  high     |    Milestone:  6.8     
   Component:  GHCi     |      Version:  6.6.1   
    Severity:  normal   |   Resolution:          
    Keywords:           |   Difficulty:  Unknown 
          Os:  Windows  |     Testcase:          
Architecture:  x86      |  
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Changes (by haskell-ghc at j-star.org):

  * resolution:  worksforme =>
  * status:  closed => reopened

Comment:

 I have hit this bug as well, except I would estimate in my case the
 probability of failure is much higher - I've got to a Prelude prompt only
 once in two full evenings of fiddling.

 I've tried with the snapshot you suggested above, and the bug is
 reproduced. The output from GHCi is:

 "GHCi, version 6.7.20070816: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
 Loading package base ... linking ... done."

 Running from an administrator priveleged command prompt doesn't help, nor
 does marking ghci.exe and ghc.exe as "run as administrator".

 ghc.exe is able to compile to executables just fine, and runhaskell also
 works.

 I have a cygwin installation, and running via ghcii.sh in a cygwin shell
 exhibits the same hanging behaviour. I've tried removing all signs of
 cygwin from my path, but this makes no difference.

 I have attached the outputs from "ghci -v5 > ghci.log 2> ghci2.log".

 Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide,
 or anything you'd like me to try.

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