Many "permission denied" errors.

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 22, 2024, at 10:14, Carl Witthoft wrote:
> 
> sudo port -f activate xorg-xorgproto
> error message is 
> Warning: Failed to execute portfile from registry for xorg-xorgproto @2024.1_0
> --->  Activating xorg-xorgproto @2024.1_0
> Error: port activate failed: mkdtemp failed: Permission denied

You should almost never force port activation so let's drop the -f flag. 

Can you try again with debug mode -- the -d flag? Maybe that will tell us more. 

I recall two or three users reporting difficulties years ago that ended up being caused by incorrect permissions on /tmp or /private/tmp so you might check those. 
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