Many "permission denied" errors.

[Carl Witthoft]

Well,  my  /private/tmp is open to read/write,   but   /private itself is
not.  Worse, it's one of those directories which ignores sudo and doesn't
allow changes.  I'll have to teach myself how to fix that (something about
logging on in a special mode IIRC).


On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 5:47 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

> 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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