<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I went through the exact same process on a different Tiger machine, using the /opt/bootstrap process with curl and sqlite3, and for whatever reason, this other system does not show the same “sudo” issue with “port”. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So — it must be something sporadic on that machine I guess… otherwise there are no noted issues so I don’t know what, but it’s not consistent and reproducible, so … I’ll just see what happens there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:57 AM, Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com" class="">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 24, 2021, at 11:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Apr 24, 2021, at 23:23, Ken Cunningham wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 24, 2021, at 7:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Does only the first non-sudo `port` command fail? Does running the command with `sudo` once allow it to work without `sudo` a second time?<br class=""><br class="">(There could be a one-time need to modify the registry sqlite database for the new method.)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yes, indeed that seems to be the case. I just tried it again on that same system, and indeed I no longer need to use sudo for basic commands. Good catch.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Ok, then this is probably just the way it is for now. I seem to recall a similar situation happening with some previous MacPorts base update. Whenever we change the structure of the registry in some way, we increase the registry version and there is code (our update_db function) that knows what SQL statements need to run to convert an old registry version into the new one. This requires write access to the database.<br class=""><br class="">Maybe there is a way that we could postpone the sqlite update process until you run a sudo port command. But depending on what the modifications are that the update performs, a new MacPorts might not be able to understand the structure of an old MacPorts registry until the sqlite update is performed.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Well, now I am a bit confused. I restarted the Tiger machine, and the problem is back:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ uname -a</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Darwin MacMini.local 8.11.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ which port</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/opt/local/bin/port</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ port -v</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sqlite error: attempt to write a readonly database (1544) while executing query: ATTACH DATABASE '/opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db' AS registry</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> while executing</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"registry::open $db_path"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> (procedure "mportinit" line 712)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> invoked from within</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, sqlite error: attempt to write a readonly database (1544) while executing query: ATTACH DATABASE '/opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db' AS registry</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ sudo port -v</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">MacPorts 2.6.99</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Entering shell mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[Users/cunningh] > quit</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Goodbye</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><div class="">My apologies for not immediately understanding why it worked last night and not today.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As Josh says, perhaps this is my own cross to bear due to how I build MacPorts. I will try it on another Tiger system I have, PPC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>