Selfupdate failing

[Watson Ladd]

Dear all,
When I selfupdate I get the following:
$sudo port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
@ERROR: chdir failed
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
/SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/main.c(1398) [receiver=2.6.9]
shell command "/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after
rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs"
returned error 5
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error
synchronizing MacPorts sources: shell command failed (see log for
details)

I haven't found the log yet, but I will keep looking. I've run
selfupdate before on this internet connection, so I don't think it is
a firewall issue, and indeed turning
the firewall off on my machine does not affect the results. If anyone
knows what else I should do to debug, please share.
Thank you,
Watson Ladd

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