MacPorts dmg installer hangs up, does not finish ?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 13:56, Bill Hernandez wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>> Bill Hernandez wrote:
>>
>>> I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine.
>>> I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it
>>> several  times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator
>>> about 3/4 of  the way through, and never finishes.
>>
>> The Installer.app provides a log (Window -> Installer Log), what
>> does it say there?
>
> I downloaded the MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg again, and this time it installed
> after several minutes.
>
> After the installer finished I tried :
>
> $ sudo port -v selfupdate
> Password:
> Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/ 
> release/
> ports/
>
> but here the terminal hangs up. (it hasn't done anything for about 10
> minutes)

Does your network allow traffic on the rsync port?