port not installing

[Ryan Schmidt]

Ok, so it's the extraction of the tarball that's failing.


On Oct 11, 2018, at 19:57, M P wrote:

> The admin used CarbonCopy for backup. Any suggestions

Does the macports user exist and is its home directory set to the correct path? It should be:


$ dscl . read /Users/macports NFSHomeDirectory
NFSHomeDirectory: /opt/local/var/macports/home


Does that directory exist and does it have the right permissions and ownership? It should be:


$ ls -ld /opt/local/var/macports/home
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  192 May  7 06:18 /opt/local/var/macports/home


Do your tmp directories exist and have the right permissions and ownership? They should be:


$ ls -ld /private/var/tmp /private/tmp
drwxrwxrwt  43 root  wheel  1376 Oct 12 00:11 /private/tmp
drwxrwxrwt   7 root  wheel   224 Oct 12 00:22 /private/var/tmp