[opam-devel] "waitpid" failed: No child processes

Ashish Agarwal agarwal1975 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 22 13:59:30 GMT 2013


FYI, I think the Platform list is meant to be used for end-user questions:
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Guillaume Hennequin <
gje.hennequin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> not sure the opam "devel" list is the right place to post this, but I
> couldn't find any opam "users" list...
>
> I'm trying to install opam locally on a server on which I don't have
> admin rights; open-Suse,  kenel 2.6.11.4-21.11;
> I have ocaml 4.01.0 installed already (had to install it separately,
> because this server had an old ocaml version (3.08.1) which caused the
> opam ./configure to complain);
>
> I had no problem compiling opam itself, but running "opam init" results
> in
>
> 'opam init' failed.
> Fatal error:
> # opam-version  1.1.0
> # os            Linux
> opam: "waitpid" failed: No child processes
>
> ... and I'm stuck...
>
> Any help greatly appreciated !
>
> best
> Guillaume
>
>
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