Ok I'm hosed.  Darcs2.2.1 does just the same thing (below)

Simple to reproduce

*         get ghc-HEAD-2008-07-17-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar  (used to be easy to find but dunno where now: I suppose I can put it up, if I knew how)

*         darcs pull -av

That's it!  So now I cannot get the sources of GHC onto my laptop.

Frustrating.   I suppose I will try with a more recent snapshot.

Simon

Tue Apr 28 09:53:45 GMT Daylight Time 2009  Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
  *
darcs failed:  ./gmp/gmp-4.2.1-nodoc.tar.gz: removeFile: permission denied (Permission denied)
Your repository is now in an inconsistent state.
This must be fixed by running darcs repair.

improve the finalizer callback error message
Tue Apr 28 13:45:05 GMT Daylight Time 2009  Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
  * move runstdtest into nofib
Tue Apr 28 13:55:28 GMT Daylight Time 2009  Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
  * add missing eventlog subdir
Tue Apr 28 13:55:51 GMT Daylight Time 2009  Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
  * move nofib settings here from ghc's config.mk
sh-2.04$

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Just some dry book-keeping: marking duplicate and closing.  I've pasted this
message on http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1452

Simon: we'll work on finding you a workaround while Salvatore hunts down and
fixes the underlying file handle leak.  More details on the other thread.