Re: MacPorts selfupdate fails… v 1.9.2 to 2.0.3 w Xcode 4.1 - OSX 10.7.1

William H. Magill magill at me.com
Tue Sep 13 19:49:14 PDT 2011


On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 14:54, William H. Magill wrote:
> 
>> ======================================================================
>> # 27 inch iMac Intel (mid 2010) - 27 inch diagonal screen - Acquired 6/2011
>> Model
>> Processor 2.93 GHz Intel Core i7
>> Memory  4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
>> Graphics  ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB
>> Display   27-inch (2560 x 1440)
>> Software  Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 (11B26)
>> ======================================================================
>> After failing to "selfupdate" under Xcode 4.0.2, I updated Xcode to 4.1 from the App Store, I got the same error as before (below), however the log file (below) as several different errors in it.
>> 
>> I also note that, other than what appear to be "normal" config failures, no errors are reported.
>> 
>> 
>> outpost> sudo port selfupdate
>> Password:
>> --->  Updating the ports tree
>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> MacPorts base version 1.9.2 installed,
>> MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
>> --->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.0.3
>> Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as magill:admin; permissions 0755; Tcl-Package in /Library/Tcl
>> 
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)
>> [/opt/local] magill 
>> 
>> ----------------<cut here>---------------------------------
>> outpost> ls -als  ./var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base/config.log
>> 60 -rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  58749 Sep 12 13:45 ./var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base/config.log
>> 
>> outpost> more  ./var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base/config.log
>> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
>> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Right, the config.log only tells you about what happened during the configure phase, which appears to have completed just fine. Presumably an error is happening in a later phase, like the build phase. Re-run selfupdate with the verbose flag to see what's happening.
> 
> sudo port -v selfupdate

This is very weird… True… registry.db does not exist… no idea why unless the previous "selfupdate" attempt deleted it.
                                   False… both my userid and root (sudo) can write to the directory.
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 outpost> sudo port -v selfupdate
Password:
port registry doesn't exist at "/opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db" and couldn't write to this location
    while executing
"registry::open $db_path"
    (procedure "mportinit" line 551)
    invoked from within
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, port registry doesn't exist at "/opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db" and couldn't write to this location
[/Users/magill] magill 


outpost> ls -alse /opt
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x@  3 magill  admin   102 Aug 27  2009 .
0 drwxr-xr-x@ 32 root    wheel  1156 Aug 17 21:49 ..
0 drwxr-xr-x  13 magill  admin   442 Sep 12 13:45 local
[/opt/local/var/macports] magill 
 outpost> ls -alse /opt/local
total 4
0 drwxr-xr-x  13 magill  admin   442 Sep 12 13:45 .
0 drwxr-xr-x@  3 magill  admin   102 Aug 27  2009 ..
0 drwxr-xr-x  28 magill  admin   952 Sep 12 13:45 bin
0 drwxr-xr-x   3 magill  admin   102 Aug 27  2009 etc
0 drwxr-xr-x  23 magill  admin   782 Jun 15 01:37 include
0 drwxr-xr-x  31 magill  admin  1054 Sep 12 13:45 lib
0 drwxr-xr-x   3 magill  admin   102 Nov  7  2010 libexec
4 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    admin     9 Sep 12 13:45 man -> share/man
0 drwxr-xr-x   3 magill  admin   102 Nov  7  2010 sbin
0 drwxr-xr-x   7 magill  admin   238 Sep 12 13:45 share
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 magill  admin    68 Sep 12 13:45 src
0 drwxr-xr-x   3 magill  admin   102 Nov  7  2010 var
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 magill  admin    68 Sep 12 13:45 www
[/opt/local/var/macports] magill 
 outpost> ls -alse /opt/local/var/       
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x   3 magill  admin  102 Nov  7  2010 .
0 drwxr-xr-x  13 magill  admin  442 Sep 12 13:45 ..
0 drwxr-xr-x  12 magill  admin  408 Sep 12 13:45 macports
[/opt/local/var/macports] magill 
 outpost> ls -alse /opt/local/var/macports
total 16
 0 drwxr-xr-x  12 magill  admin   408 Sep 12 13:45 .
 0 drwxr-xr-x   3 magill  admin   102 Nov  7  2010 ..
 4 -rw-r--r--   1 root    admin    13 Sep 12 13:45 .tclpackage
 0 drwxr-xr-x   3 magill  admin   102 Jul  8 14:03 build
 0 drwxr-xr-x   4 magill  admin   136 Jul  8 14:03 distfiles
 0 drwxr-xr-x   2 magill  admin    68 Jul  8 14:03 logs
 0 drwxr-xr-x   3 root    admin   102 Nov  7  2010 packages
12 -r--r--r--   1 magill  admin  9851 Sep 12 13:45 port-help.tcl
 0 drwxr-xr-x   6 root    admin   204 Jul  8 14:03 receipts
 0 drwxr-xr-x   4 magill  admin   136 Sep 13 22:39 registry
 0 drwxr-xr-x   3 magill  admin   102 Jul  8 14:03 software
 0 drwxr-xr-x   3 root    admin   102 Jun 15 01:37 sources
[/opt/local/var/macports] magill 
 outpost> ls -alse /opt/local/var/macports/registry
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x   4 magill  admin  136 Sep 13 22:39 .
0 drwxr-xr-x  12 magill  admin  408 Sep 12 13:45 ..
0 -rw-r--r--   1 root    admin    0 Jul  8 14:03 .registry.lock
0 -rw-rw-r--   1 root    admin    0 Nov  7  2010 .turd_MacPorts
[/opt/local/var/macports] magill 
 outpost> 

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Note: last activity had been 8 July when I successfully installed iStumbler.


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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