MacPorts dmg installer hangs up, does not finish ?

[Bill Hernandez]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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?

I've never had a problem with rsync before. I haven't changed anything  
on the firewall for a while.

I began running into a number of other problems that forced me to  
force quit applications like Xcode, and others, that continuously  
became non-responsive. I may be wrong, but I suspect that upgrading  
Leopard directly over Tiger may be the cause of some of these problems.

Yesterday I completely re-formatted my primary drive, did a clean  
install of Leopard, and spent several hours downloading and installing  
the very latest versions of each application and 3rd party utility I  
own.

After I read your comments on Darwin 8 vs. Darwin 9, I thought the  
smartest thing would be to re-format the drive and install everything  
from scratch, not just MacPorts.

Today I will try to do a clean install of MacPorts, and see how that  
goes.

Bill Hernandez
ms at mac-specialist.com