Install flaked? ports no longer knows what I've already installed?

[specialham at gmail.com]

Further weirdness -
my path is good, /opt/local/bin is fully populated with all my gear, the 
man pages are present, but when I try to look at the manpage for any of 
my gear it reports that there is no manual entry for it??
perms look good.. I don't get this.
*sigh*

specialham at gmail.com wrote:
> Hey all... some weirdness going on here. I've had macports installed for 
> some time, I've installed several packages using it. They are all still 
> there and working (ie BitchX, wget, etc). Today I went to install lynx 
> and I got:
> 
> [...]
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: 
> /opt/local/bin/c_rehash already exists and does not belong to a 
> registered port.  Unable to activate port openssl.
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: openssl
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> 
> Now.. openssl has already been installed and is present. It's like ports 
> has amnesia or some such. When I run port installed it gives me:
> 
> The following ports are currently installed:
>   ncurses @5.6_0+darwin_8 (active)
>   ncursesw @5.6_0+darwin_8 (active)
>   openssl @0.9.8e_0+darwin_8
>   readline @5.2.001_0 (active)
>   zlib @1.2.3_1
> 
> none of my other packages are listed! Where's wget? Where's BitchX?
> 
> I re-ran the package installer figuring that I'd lose that info or some 
> such and just reinstall installed packages so that port would be aware 
> of them but.. nothing changed.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> ShaBot
>