realpath failed -- error uninstalling ports

[Dexter Douglas]

Hello,

I still have this problem on my PowerBook G4, but I do not have this problem on my Intel-based MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard).

Does anyone know what realpath is?  I am not sure how to track this problem down.

Thanks.

--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Dexter Douglas <luomo1138 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Dexter Douglas <luomo1138 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: realpath failed -- error uninstalling ports
> To: "Ryan Schmidt" <ryandesign at macports.org>
> Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:31 PM
> Hello,
> 
> I am sorry.  I left out ALL the important information.
> 
> I am running Leopard on a PowerBook G4; Xcode 3.1.2;
> macports 1.8.1.
> 
> "port uninstall" was working just fine until 1 Oct.  That
> is when I performed a selfupdate to 1.8.1 and then upgraded
> all my outdated ports.
> 
> After the upgrade, I tried to clean up by uninstalling the
> inactive ports.  That is when I got the error message. 
> 
> I have two most likely unrelated pieces of information.
> 1) During the upgrading, doxygen failed to compile.  I
> ended up uninstalling and trying to reinstall.  I was not
> able to reinstall doxygen.  2) I suffered from the
> "MacPorts 1.8.0 deletes ${prefix} if it is a symlink"
> problem (http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21082).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 10/2/09, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> > Subject: Re: realpath failed -- error uninstalling
> ports
> > To: "Dexter Douglas" <luomo1138 at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> > Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 12:11 AM
> > 
> > On Oct 1, 2009, at 22:27, Dexter Douglas wrote:
> > 
> > > I get this error message when I try to uninstall
> > inactive ports:
> > > 
> > > Error: port uninstall failed: realpath failed: No
> such
> > file or directory
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know what this means?
> > 
> > This happens on every port? Has it always been this
> way or
> > did it recently start? If the latter, what changed?
> > 
> > What version of Mac OS X, Xcode, MacPorts? What Mac?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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