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Could not create directory

See original GitHub issue

Running IntelliJ-Haskell 1.1.0 Beta 51 on

IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1.3 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-191.7479.19, built on May 27, 2019
Licensed to idear / Breandan Considine
Subscription is active until July 23, 2019
For non-commercial open source development only.
JRE: 1.8.0_202-release-1483-b58 amd64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Linux 4.15.0-52-generic

I encountered the following error:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not create directory `/home/breandan/.cache/intellij-haskell`
	at intellij.haskell.util.HaskellFileUtil$.createDirectoryIfNotExists(HaskellFileUtil.scala:265)
	at intellij.haskell.GlobalInfo$.getIntelliJHaskellDirectory(GlobalInfo.scala:24)
	at intellij.haskell.GlobalInfo$.getLibrarySourcesPath(GlobalInfo.scala:30)
	at intellij.haskell.util.HaskellProjectUtil$.getProjectLibrarySourcesDirectory(HaskellProjectUtil.scala:77)
	at intellij.haskell.util.HaskellProjectUtil$.isLibraryFile(HaskellProjectUtil.scala:72)
	at intellij.haskell.external.component.DefinitionLocationComponent$.findDefinitionLocationResult(DefinitionLocationComponent.scala:124)
	at intellij.haskell.external.component.DefinitionLocationComponent$.findDefinitionLocation(DefinitionLocationComponent.scala:55)
	at intellij.haskell.external.component.HaskellComponentsManager$.findDefinitionLocation(HaskellComponentsManager.scala:61)
	at intellij.haskell.navigation.HaskellReference.resolveReferenceByDefinitionLocation(HaskellReference.scala:170)
	at intellij.haskell.navigation.HaskellReference.resolveReference(HaskellReference.scala:162)
	at intellij.haskell.navigation.HaskellReference.$anonfun$multiResolve$1(HaskellReference.scala:129)
	at scala.Option.orElse(Option.scala:306)
	at intellij.haskell.navigation.HaskellReference.multiResolve(HaskellReference.scala:107)
	at com.intellij.psi.PsiPolyVariantReferenceBase.resolve(PsiPolyVariantReferenceBase.java:47)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.intention.AddAnnotationPsiFix.getContainer(AddAnnotationPsiFix.java:73)
	at com.intellij.codeInspection.dataFlow.EditContractIntention.getTargetMethod(EditContractIntention.java:46)
	at com.intellij.codeInspection.dataFlow.EditContractIntention.isAvailable(EditContractIntention.java:56)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.intention.impl.ShowIntentionActionsHandler.availableFor(ShowIntentionActionsHandler.java:127)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.ShowIntentionsPass.lambda$getActionsToShow$1(ShowIntentionsPass.java:284)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.intention.impl.ShowIntentionActionsHandler.chooseBetweenHostAndInjected(ShowIntentionActionsHandler.java:152)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.ShowIntentionsPass.getActionsToShow(ShowIntentionsPass.java:282)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.ShowIntentionsPass.getActionsToShow(ShowIntentionsPass.java:254)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.ShowIntentionsPass.doCollectInformation(ShowIntentionsPass.java:220)
	at com.intellij.codeHighlighting.TextEditorHighlightingPass.collectInformation(TextEditorHighlightingPass.java:69)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.PassExecutorService$ScheduledPass.lambda$null$1(PassExecutorService.java:430)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.tryRunReadAction(ApplicationImpl.java:1166)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.PassExecutorService$ScheduledPass.lambda$doRun$2(PassExecutorService.java:423)
	at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.registerIndicatorAndRun(CoreProgressManager.java:586)
	at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.executeProcessUnderProgress(CoreProgressManager.java:532)
	at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressManagerImpl.executeProcessUnderProgress(ProgressManagerImpl.java:86)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.PassExecutorService$ScheduledPass.doRun(PassExecutorService.java:422)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.PassExecutorService$ScheduledPass.lambda$run$0(PassExecutorService.java:398)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ReadMostlyRWLock.executeByImpatientReader(ReadMostlyRWLock.java:164)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.executeByImpatientReader(ApplicationImpl.java:218)
	at com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.PassExecutorService$ScheduledPass.run(PassExecutorService.java:396)
	at com.intellij.concurrency.JobLauncherImpl$VoidForkJoinTask$1.exec(JobLauncherImpl.java:174)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:289)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1056)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1692)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:157)