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
