Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg

[Potato Soup]

I just logged in to my non Admin account and su'd to my admin account, and when 
trying selfupdate, it failed with:

Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports 
tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed

It's almost as if su is not quite fully working. Weirdly when logged into my 
admin account, I still had to su. Maybe that's how it works on OSX? But this 
means that all commands to get things have to be done from an Admin session, and 
su is not enough? That doesn't sound right to me. 



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From: Scott Webster <sewebster at gmail.com>
To: Potato Soup <potatosoupz at yahoo.com>
Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 8:35:44 PM
Subject: Re: Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with 
MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg

I "run" macports as a regular user... but when I want to run the port
command I first "su" to an admin account and then run the port
commands with sudo.  As far as I know macports requires full
privileges to work properly.  Likely you could get something working
fully as non-admin by installing from source and changing some
options, but the installer assumes you want to put it in /opt/local
etc.

Scott

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Potato Soup <potatosoupz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok, I removed it, and then logged into OSX with an admin account and
> reinstalled and then did selfupdate. Everything worked fine. So what's the
> deal, how do I set it to work from a non Admin account? I never work in an
> Admin account for fear of security issues.
> ________________________________
> From: Lenore Horner <LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Potato Soup <potatosoupz at yahoo.com>
> Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 8:06:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with
> MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg
>
>
> On Nov 17, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Potato Soup wrote:
>
> Hi I just installed the latest SnowLeopard Mac Ports
> (MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg) from the website, on my brand new 27"
> iMac with SnowLeopard and latest xcode, and when running port, it fails
> with:
> dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib, 10): no
> suitable image found.  Did find:
> /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib: no matching
> architecture in universal wrapper
>     while executing
> "load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib"
>     ("package ifneeded macports 1.0" script)
>     invoked from within
> "package require macports"
>     (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 39)
>
> I searched and all I could find was examples of people having this issue
> when upgrading from older OSX versions, not a brand new SLeopard. I am
> stumped and I now have a broken install. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Did you bring anything over from a previous Mac?  If you did this in any
> automatic way, you probably brought over your old /opt/local built for the
> wrong OS.  If not, I'm stumped but I'm sure someone else will know.
>
>
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