Port Selfupdate failed - Mountain Lion OS X

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Aug 29, 2014, at 3:03 AM, vignesh babu <jvigneshbabu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I managed to run the rsync on the terminal and extracted the base & ports tar file. Upon the command, sudo port -v install arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc @4.6.2_1 ,

Note that the "install" command does not take a version number.


> the following message was thrown:
> 
> The highlighted text seems to be similar error like the self update error. Do you think its related to permissions ?
> 
> Apples-MacBook-Pro:ports apple$ sudo port -v install arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc @4.6.2_1
> --->  Computing dependencies for arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc..................
> --->  Dependencies to be installed: arm-linux-gnueabi-binutils zlib arm-linux-gnueabi-runtime dpkg bzip2 coreutils gettext expat libiconv ncurses gmp perl5 perl5.16 gdbm xz libmpc mpfr
> --->  Activating zlib @1.2.8_0
> sh: error: /usr/bin/bzip2 -d -c /opt/local/var/macports/software/zlib/zlib-1.2.8_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 | ( /usr/bin/tar -xvpf - ): No such file or directory
> sh: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
> Command failed: /usr/bin/bzip2 -d -c /opt/local/var/macports/software/zlib/zlib-1.2.8_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 | ( /usr/bin/tar -xvpf - )
> Exit code: 1
> Error: org.macports.activate for port zlib returned: command execution failed
> Error: Failed to install zlib
> Please see the log file for port zlib for details:
>     /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_archivers_zlib/zlib/main.log
> Error: The following dependencies were not installed: arm-linux-gnueabi-binutils zlib arm-linux-gnueabi-runtime dpkg bzip2 coreutils gettext expat libiconv ncurses gmp perl5 perl5.16 gdbm xz libmpc mpfr
> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>     http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
> Error: Processing of port arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc failed

It does seem to be a similar error, perhaps due to the same as-yet-unknown root cause.

Is there anything unusual about your MacPorts setup? Is /opt or /opt/local a symlink for example? If so, where to?