On Oct 9, 2010, at 16:00, Uli Wienands wrote:

> I have been trying to update my MacPorts installation by running "sudo port 
> -d selfupdate". It fails with the following message:
> 
> .
> .
> .
> ===> making install in doc
> /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local
> /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local/etc/macports
> cat prefix.mtree | /usr/sbin/mtree -U -e -p /opt/local > /dev/null
> mtree: line 6: unknown group 501
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> make: *** [install] Error 1

I am uncertain why selfupdate is failing for you, but you could work around 
this for now by installing MacPorts 1.9.1 from the disk image available on the 
MacPorts web site. This will not affect your installed ports.




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