Error: port activate failed: Registry error: No port of e installed.

[Rainer Müller]

On 2010-10-11 19:21 , David Gentry wrote:
> 6. In my terminal window, I ran a command to list all inactive ports.
> I picked several to run a "port activate" command on.  For example, I
> said, "port activate [apache2]" and "port activate [mysql5]."  I
> received the error message in the subject line of this email.
> 
> What should I do now?  I need my ports back!

Why did you use these brackets? They are interpreted as wildcard and in
the end result in a single character. Actually that should be an error,
seems to be a bug with the wildcard expansion in port.

Just type the port's name without anything extra:

sudo port activate mysql5 apache2

> I have a couple of thoughts:
> 
> 1. I could run a command to determine if the ports I need are even
> installed.  If not, I could run an install command.

port installed apache2 mysql5

It will also tell you if the ports are active or not.

> 2. I could use Mac's Time Machine backup to restore my system to the
> way it was the day before I installed Macports.

IIRC Time Machine does not work very well with MacPorts as it is unable
to backup hardlinks.

Rainer