On Dec 19, 2010, at 20:01, William H. Magill wrote: > I just decided I should probably check on the status of my macports install > and got the following... > > ==================<cut here>============ > sudo port selfupdate > ---> Updating the ports tree > ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync > MacPorts base version 1.8.2 installed, > MacPorts base version 1.9.2 downloaded. > ---> MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 1.9.2 > Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:admin; permissions > 0755; Tcl-Package in /Library/Tcl > > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new > MacPorts base: shell command "cd > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base && > ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl > --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin > --with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make && make install" > returned error 1 > ==================<cut here>============ > > Something I did, or is something broken?
Unfortunately the output MacPorts printed above has no information about what went wrong.... and I don't know if it writes a logfile anywhere. If we can't resolve it with the steps below, you may have to redo the selfupdate with the debug switch to get more information (i.e. "sudo port -d selfupdate"). > Don't see anything obviously wrong. > When I check /opt/local from my id (not su), I noticed that "/opt/local/man" > is a link which for some reason is giving me a "Permission denied. > > ls: ./man: Permission denied > 4 lrwx------ 1 root admin 9 Feb 12 2010 ./man That seems to show that ./man is an actual directory, not a symlink as it should be, and that it has permissions 700 instead of 755. Fix the permissions of this directory with: sudo chmod 755 ./man If the files and directories inside it also have incorrect permissions, more involved permissions fixing may be necessary. What's in this directory, and was it provided by a MacPorts port? This should let you find out: find ./man -type f -print0 | xargs -0 port provides Ports should install manpages in /opt/local/share/man, not /opt/local/man; if you have any port that has a location in /opt/local/min registered to it, we need to fix that port, so please tell us what port it is. > even though /opt/local/share/man is fine... (but man3 is also full of bad > links... argh!) Oh? I don't think there should be any bad symlinks; can you tell us about them? > The only "odd" thing which I did notice is: > > ls -als /library/Tcl > total 0 > 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 Nov 13 15:15 . > 0 drwxrwxr-t+ 62 root admin 2108 Nov 13 15:15 .. > 0 drwxrwxr-x 9 root admin 306 Mar 23 2007 darwinports1.0 > 0 drwxr-xr-x 10 root admin 340 Feb 12 2010 macports1.0 > > > .... Thought I had purged all the darwin ports stuff ages ago... :) You should be safely able to delete the darwinports1.0 directory. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
