# 503 errors on Hackage

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**Created:** [December 14, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/503-errors-on-hackage/13402 "2025-12-14T00:10:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/503-errors-on-hackage/13402/6 "2025-12-15T07:48:39Z")

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Could it be [Out of file descriptors! · Issue #100 · haskell/tar · GitHub](https://github.com/haskell/tar/issues/100) / [cabal haddock failure: out of FDs due to tar · Issue #11131 · haskell/cabal · GitHub](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/11131)? ?

hackage-server still uses tar-0.6: [hackage-server/hackage-server.cabal at 350fd8aac61c76481fcccfeee499ab6675171320 · haskell/hackage-server · GitHub](https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/blob/350fd8aac61c76481fcccfeee499ab6675171320/hackage-server.cabal#L175)

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