Error: Unable to execute port: couldn't create error file for command: no such file or directory

[Randall Wood]

What is the output of
	which whoami
and
	ls -l /usr/bin/whoami

If no whoami command can not be found, you probably need to  
reinstalled the BSD subsystem from your OS X installation DVD.

On 26 Jul 2007, at 20:37, Shigeto Kumagai wrote:

> Hi,
> Has anyone seen such error? Can someone please help me solve the  
> error?
>
> When trying selfupdate or install a port, I got error stated in  
> subject.  I have checked mailing lists and googled for the error  
> but I couldn't find any similar incident.
>
> This happend on 1.4.0, so I have wiped the installation as shown in  
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/ 
> FAQ#HowdoIremoveoruninstallMacPorts . Then installed 1.5.0 from  
> source. The error still occurs and I cannot selfupdate nor install  
> any ports.
>
> If you require any other information, please let me know.
>
> = Here is output of the selfupdate
>
> > sudo port -d selfupdate
> ..
> ..
>
> tests/test/xcodeversion/
>
> sent 69 bytes  received 5500 bytes  2227.60 bytes/sec
> total size is 3647765  speedup is 655.01
> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600
> Configuring, Building and Installing new MacPorts base
> DEBUG: couldn't create error file for command: no such file or  
> directory
>     while executing
> "exec /usr/bin/whoami"
>     (procedure "macports::selfupdate" line 64)
>     invoked from within
> "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]"
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: couldn't create  
> error file for command: no such file or directory
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