Error Synchronization of the local ports tree failed

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 20, 2011, at 09:29, Juliana Palma wrote:

> I have installed MacPort-1.9.2 from the .pkg file on my on my new MacBookPro. The installer run automatically. When the installation was finished I massege aapeared saying that it had been succesfull. After that, I opened a terminal and run "sudo port selfupdate" and I got the following error message
> 
> Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
> --->  Updating the ports tree
> 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
> 
> Any idea to solve this?

Welcome to MacPorts!

You can use verbose mode to find out why it failed:

sudo port -v selfupdate

Is the rsync protocol blocked on your network? If so, you'll have to configure MacPorts for a different sync method, such as svn.