c_poll permission denied

TL;DR: The error is harmless.

Long version:

Sometimes, it is possible that the runtime can print an error that looks more or less like this:

bootstrap: c_poll: permission denied (Operation not permitted)

This is because when the Haskell runtime system (the Haskell RTS is equivalent to Java's JVM) is initialized, the runtime system polls some OS stuff, to see what features of the OS it can use for IO execution. Given that Amazon Linux does not support some of these features, it fails with a permission denied error.

If this error makes your application crash for some reason, please do open an issue.

Error while loading shared libraries

Given the native nature of Haskell, and it's possibility to interoperate with shared libraries, it might be possible that you have encountered yourself facing an error that looks like:

/var/task/bootstrap: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

Solution 1: Enable static linking

The easiest solution is likely to just enable static linking for your project by adding the following to your package.yaml or .cabal file (this will be already included if you're using the Stack template):

ghc-options: -O2 -static -threaded
cc-options: -static
ld-options: -static -pthread

# If you want to pass a custom path to your dependencies
# extra-lib-dirs: ./some/path

Solution 2: Deploy the libraries with your lambda

To solve this, we have to make sure that whatever is packaging/deploying our function is copying these libraries to our function package. If you are using the Stack template, then you should substitute the last line of your makefile for these lines:

@rsync -rl <path-to-your-extra-libraries>
@cd build && zip -r function.zip bootstrap <name-of-library-directory> && rm bootstrap && cd ..

Additionally, you will want to make sure you have the amd64 version of these libraries, and when you download them that they live in lib/x86_64/. When you download amd64 files, they are usually saved to lib/x86_64_gnu_linux.

Please note that you might have to adjust your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, so it also points to the directory where you've placed these files. $LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT/lib is already part of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so if <name-of-library-directory> is lib, this should be handled automatically.

Here is a more comprehensive list of libraries that you might want to copy if they are used by your project. You can use it to check if some library of those might appear in your project.

libz.so.1
libxml2.so.2
libverto.so.1
libutil.so.1
libunistring.so.0
libtinfo.so.5
libtic.so.5
libthread_db.so.1
libtasn1.so.3
libstdc++.so.6
libssl3.so
libssl.so.10
libssh2.so.1
libsqlite3.so.0
libsoftokn3.so
libsmime3.so
libsepol.so.1
libselinux.so.1
libsasl2.so.2
librt.so.1
librpmsign.so.1
librpmio.so.3
librpmbuild.so.3
librpm.so.3
libresolv.so.2
libreadline.so.6
libp11-kit.so.0
libpython2.7.so.1.0
libpthread.so.0
libpth.so.20
libpsl.so.0
libpopt.so.0
libplds4.so
libplc4.so
libpcreposix.so.0
libpcrecpp.so.0
libpcre.so.0
libpcprofile.so
libpanelw.so.5
libpanel.so.5
libnss3.so
libnssutil3.so
libnsssysinit.so
libnsspem.so
libnssdbm3.so
libnssckbi.so
libnss_nisplus.so.2
libnss_nis.so.2
libnss_hesiod.so.2
libnss_files.so.2
libnss_dns.so.2
libnss_db.so.2
libnss_compat.so.2
libnspr4.so
libnsl.so.1
libncursesw.so.5
libncurses.so.5
libmenuw.so.5
libmenu.so.5
libmemusage.so
libmagic.so.1
libm.so.6
liblzma.so.5
liblua-5.1.so
libldif-2.4.so.2
libldap_r-2.4.so.2
libldap-2.4.so.2
liblber-2.4.so.2
libk5crypto.so.3
libkrb5support.so.0
libkrb5.so.3
libkrad.so.0
libkeyutils.so.1
libkdb5.so.8
libidn2.so.0
libicuuc.so.50
libicutu.so.50
libicutest.so.50
libiculx.so.50
libicule.so.50
libicui18n.so.50
libicuio.so.50
libicudata.so.50
libhistory.so.6
libgthread-2.0.so.0
libgssrpc.so.4
libgssapi_krb5.so.2
libgpgme.so.11
libgpgme-pthread.so.11
libgpg-error.so.0
libgobject-2.0.so.0
libgmpxx.so.4
libgmp.so.10
libgmodule-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so.0
libgio-2.0.so.0
libgdbm.so.2
libgcrypt.so.11
libgcc_s.so.1
libfreebl3.so
libfreeblpriv3.so
libformw.so.5
libform.so.5
libffi.so.6
libexpat.so.1
libelf.so.1
libdl.so.2
libdb-4.7.so
libcurl.so.4
libcrypto.so.10
libcrypt.so.1
libcom_err.so.2
libcidn.so.1
libcap.so.2
libc.so.6
libbz2.so.1
libattr.so.1
libassuan.so.0
libanl.so.1
libacl.so.1
libSegFault.so
libBrokenLocale.so.1
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2