<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On Apr 22, 2024, at 10:14, Carl Witthoft wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>sudo port -f activate xorg-xorgproto<br></div><div>error message is </div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Warning: Failed to execute portfile from registry for xorg-xorgproto @2024.1_0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">---><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Activating xorg-xorgproto @2024.1_0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Error: port activate failed: mkdtemp failed: Permission denied</span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><div>You should almost never force port activation so let's drop the -f flag. </div><div><br></div><div>Can you try again with debug mode -- the -d flag? Maybe that will tell us more. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div></body></html>