Unable to open port: can't read "startupitem.install"

[Ian Wadham]

On 05/05/2012, at 2:27 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Error: Unable to open port: can't read "startupitem.install": no such variable
>> Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade automoc failed
> 
> I"m just curious, is it always hung up on automoc?
> 
I don't think so.  I tried port upgrade automoc (although automoc is not on my
outdated list), and it failed immediately.  I picked inkscape from my outdated
list.  "sudo port upgrade inkscape" ran OK for a while and my outdated list was
reduced by 6 ports out of 34.  It even built python27, but then it bombed at:

--->  Computing dependencies for glibmm
--->  Fetching archive for glibmm
--->  Attempting to fetch glibmm-2.32.0_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/glibmm
--->  Attempting to fetch glibmm-2.32.0_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://packages.macports.org/glibmm
--->  Installing glibmm @2.32.0_0
--->  Cleaning glibmm
--->  Computing dependencies for glibmm
--->  Deactivating glibmm @2.28.2_0
--->  Cleaning glibmm
--->  Activating glibmm @2.32.0_0
--->  Cleaning glibmm
Error: Unable to open port: can't read "startupitem.install": no such variable
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

"sudo port upgrade automake" worked fine and also built dependency autoconf,
with no error output.

The next thing I tried was:

Tara:~>sudo port upgrade dbus
Error: Unable to open port: can't read "startupitem.install": no such variable
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

which bombed out immediately, as you can see.

Are there any more I should try?  My outdated list is down to these 26 items:

Tara:~>port list outdated
akonadi                        @1.7.2          devel/akonadi
attica                         @0.3.0          kde/attica
avahi                          @0.6.31         net/avahi
coreutils                      @8.16           sysutils/coreutils
curl                           @7.25.0         net/curl
dbus                           @1.4.20         devel/dbus
docbook-xsl                    @1.76.1         textproc/docbook-xsl
gd2                            @2.0.35         graphics/gd2
ghostscript                    @9.05           print/ghostscript
gnupg                          @1.4.12         mail/gnupg
ImageMagick                    @6.7.6-7        graphics/ImageMagick
inkscape                       @0.48.3.1       graphics/inkscape
iso-codes                      @3.34           devel/iso-codes
kde4-runtime                   @4.8.2          kde/kde4-runtime
kdelibs4                       @4.8.2          kde/kdelibs4
kdepimlibs4                    @4.8.2          kde/kdepimlibs4
ktoblzcheck                    @1.38           devel/ktoblzcheck
libbonobo                      @2.32.1         gnome/libbonobo
libofx                         @0.9.5          devel/libofx
mysql5                         @5.1.62         databases/mysql5
oxygen-icons                   @4.8.2          kde/oxygen-icons
poppler                        @0.18.4         graphics/poppler
py27-distribute                @0.6.26         python/py-distribute
py27-gdbm                      @2.7.3          python/py-gdbm
py27-gobject                   @2.26.0         python/py27-gobject
raptor2                        @2.0.7          www/raptor2

Cheers, Ian W.