<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Folks,</div><div>this issue is being trac'd on <a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30574">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30574</a> but there is no maintainer response.</div><div><br></div><div>the tail end of sudo port -v -d selfupdate shows this:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">===> making install in src/port</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">< ../../doc/prefix.mtree /usr/sbin/mtree -U -d -e -p /opt/local > /dev/null</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">< ../../doc/base.mtree /usr/sbin/mtree -U -d -e -p /opt/local > /dev/null</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g admin -m 755 /opt/local/bin</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g admin -m 755 /opt/local/var/macports</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g admin -m 555 port portindex portmirror /opt/local/bin/</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g admin -m 444 port-help.tcl /opt/local/var/macports/</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">cd /opt/local/bin && ln -s -f port portf</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">===> making install in src/programs</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">===> making install in src/programs/daemondo</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">mkdir -p build</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g admin -m 555 build/daemondo /opt/local/bin</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">===> making install in tests</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">[ ! -f /opt/local/etc/macports/mp_version ] || rm -vf /opt/local/etc/macports/mp_version</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g admin -m 444 setupenv.bash /opt/local/share/macports/</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g admin -m 444 macports-pubkey.pem /opt/local/share/macports/</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/tclsh src/upgrade_sources_conf_default.tcl "/opt/local"</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/usr/bin/tclsh src/images_to_archives.tcl "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl"</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">couldn't read file "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/macports_fastload.tcl": too many levels of symbolic links</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> while executing</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"source [file join [lindex $argv 0] macports1.0 macports_fastload.tcl]"</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> (file "src/images_to_archives.tcl" line 8)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">make: *** [install] Error 1</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">shell command "cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base && CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with-directory-mode=0755 && make && make install" returned error 2</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">DEBUG: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> while executing</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated"</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)</span></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I _think the problem is one of those install commands failing to install files in the correct places.</div><div>I have removed /usr/loca/ from the PATH before running this too.</div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">bash-3.2# path</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">/Library/Java/Home/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/subversion/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Library/Perl/5.10.0:/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.10.0:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin</span></font></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">so .. can anyone suggest something i can do to diagnose the prob? or know the reason for the problem?</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></div></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">--</div><div>Jeff Hayes is vulcan_</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:vulcan_@me.com">vulcan_@me.com</a></div></div></div></span></span>
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