Re: OT probably, help please (fwd)

[Dave Horsfall]

Oops; this was meant foe the list...

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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:11:06 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall 
To: René J.V. Bertin 
Subject: Re: OT probably, help please

Someone mentioned "launchd.info" (and I daftly deleted the message).  
Does it look as wonky for others as it does for me?  I'm using Firefox 
35.0 (haven't tried others, as the last time I did it buggered up a few 
things) and I get, in the top half, a static window with some sort of an 
index and a silhouette of something looking like a watering can, with a 
full-screen scrolling window under it.

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Re: OT probably, help please

[René J . V . Bertin]

On Friday January 23 2015 08:56:31 James Linder wrote:

> smartctl -a gives zillions of errors eg

>   7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f   081   060   030Pre-fail  Always  
>  -   147598082
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   038   025   000Old_age   Always  
>  -   183829319

A zillion is a bit over the top: I see only these 2 indicators that catch 
attention, but without knowing the disk model it's hard to interpret the data. 
port:gsmartcontrol can help with that, btw.

Bad sectors aren't necessarily detected and recorded on the fly, though. I 
always forget if the get stored (and remapped) during the 1st extensive 
self-test after a full disk write or if it's the other way round (last time I 
had to cope with one was about 10y ago) but in your case a full rewrite may not 
be required as long as the disk doesn't spin down after the last error and the 
self test.

Good luck,
R.
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Re: OT probably, help please

[James Linder]

> On 23 Jan 2015, at 12:42 am, William H. Magill  wrote:
> 
>>> I cannot explain why a (normally) rational, sane thinking idiot did not 
>>> make that his first port of call (beautifully synced)
>>> 
>>> Jan 21 00:04:34 haycorn kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
>>> 
>>> Thanks everybody, and sorry for being an idiot
>> 
>> I wouldn't immediately think about disk i/o errors either from the symptoms 
>> you described (not for short freezes in anyway). Not with an hdd anyway.
>> What's in your logs around those I/O error messages, and what do the 
>> smartmontools (in MacPorts) tell about the disk's health? smartctl -a 
>> /dev/disk0 and do run smartctl -t long /dev/disk0 (disabling disk spin down 
>> for the duration of the test as that would interrupt it)?
>> 
>> A bit too many reports of comparable symptoms in 10.9 somehow related to 
>> disk I/O errors for my comfort zone. OS X wouldn't be doing something low 
>> level that somehow stresses the disk hardware I hope?

I confess to bias suspecting yosemite before anything else!
smartctl -a gives zillions of errors eg

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE  UPDATED  
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000e   078   077   006Old_age   Always   
-   183829319
  3 Spin_Up_Time0x0003   100   100   000Pre-fail  Always   
-   0
  4 Start_Stop_Count0x0032   099   099   020Old_age   Always   
-   1749
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036Pre-fail  Always   
-   0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f   081   060   030Pre-fail  Always   
-   147598082
  9 Power_On_Hours  0x0032   078   078   000Old_age   Always   
-   19827
 10 Spin_Retry_Count0x0013   100   100   097Pre-fail  Always   
-   0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count   0x0032   099   099   020Old_age   Always   
-   1505
184 End-to-End_Error0x0032   100   100   099Old_age   Always   
-   0
187 Reported_Uncorrect  0x0032   001   001   000Old_age   Always   
-   34330
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a   099   099   000Old_age   Always   
-   1
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   058   040   045Old_age   Always   
In_the_past 42 (3 248 42 24 0)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022   042   060   000Old_age   Always   
-   42 (0 16 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   038   025   000Old_age   Always   
-   183829319
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   2
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000Old_age   Offline  
-   2
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x003e   200   200   000Old_age   Always   
-   0

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Re: OT probably, help please

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:26 PM, René J.V.  wrote:

> Oh wait, but you're running FreeBSD on it ... O:-)


I read "MacBook with a FreeBSD *server*". I used to run that kind of setup
myself (and am trying to scrounge hardware to do so again...).

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Re: OT probably, help please

[René J . V . Bertin]

On Friday January 23 2015 05:53:21 Dave Horsfall wrote:

> Hmmm...  I just tried SMART on my drive, but being an external USB drive 
> (long story) it's not supported, so...

Did you try with the SATSMARTDriver I linked to in my previous post?

> I have been seeing slow performance lately; I bought the MacBook early in
> 2010, but it's a late 2009 model.  I wonder?

A late 2009 model can probably no longer be considered fast; if you've upgraded 
to 10.9 or even 10.10 I'd not exclude the possibility that it's simply 
surpassed by a certain number of new features...
Oh wait, but you're running FreeBSD on it ... O:-)

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Re: OT probably, help please

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, William H. Magill wrote:

> After a tremendous amount of effort on the part of numerous kernel 
> programmers at DEC, they discovered that the bottom level BSD I/O 
> modules had not been "looked at" (literally) since PDP days. Disk I/O 
> was being done in 128 byte blocks.

You sure abut this?  My memory of the PDP days (ye olde 11/40) was that 
I/O was the same as the disk sector i.e. 512 bytes; this was V5/V6/V7 
Unix.

> One thing which I noticed immediately when I turned on iCloud disk in 
> Yosemite -- the "lag" involved with launching any program which stored 
> anything "in the cloud." Not unexpected, but significant none the less.

I've never bothered with iCloud; I don't store much stuff anyway (see my 
signature), and it all gets backed up to my Time Capsule.

> Similarly, I had a problem where my internal hard drive would literally 
> not spin-up. Took the iMac in to the Apple Store and they ran their 
> diagnostics and pronounced nothing wrong -- the tests passed with flying 
> colors!
> 
> I finally convinced them that the drive was not spinning up and they got 
> a tech to come out front who had a stethoscope and instantly verified 
> that the drive was not spinning.

Didn't they see the dreaded question mark on booting up?

> I've seen too many cases related to both BSD (and later Mach, i.e. NeXT 
> and OSX) where much of the hardware level "stuff" is completely ignored 
> by any of the upper-level reporting software. -- one of the main reasons 
> why Drive manufacturers developed S.M.A.R.T. -- the OS does not do the 
> job.

Hmmm...  I just tried SMART on my drive, but being an external USB drive 
(long story) it's not supported, so...

> In my experience, by the time the OS flags a Disk error, you have been 
> suffering constant performance degrading failures which are simply below 
> the "reporting threshold", for quite some time.

I have been seeing slow performance lately; I bought the MacBook early in 
2010, but it's a late 2009 model.  I wonder?

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Re: OT probably, help please

[René J . V . Bertin]

On Thursday January 22 2015 11:05:02 Brandon Allbery wrote:

> I think there are a lot of things one can do that can have the side effect
> of pushing the boundaries of hardware (this includes things like
> compression).

Compression? Depending on what kind and the application, it can also shift the 
burden from (mechanical) peripheral hardware to the CPU.

> Not to mention things like SSD where you are explicitly
> trading lifetime for performance.

Indeed.

> Searching for reasons to believe it's
> just to drive obsolescence isn't particularly fruitful, unless you consider
> paranoia an end in itself.

Oh, I'm not. But I also don't believe in the contrary, i.e. avoiding things 
that give debatable (performance) gains at the detriment of longevity.

> I've seen too many cases related to both BSD (and later Mach, i.e. NeXT and
> OSX) where much of the hardware level "stuff" is completely ignored by any
> of the upper-level reporting software. -- one of the main reasons why Drive
> manufacturers developed S.M.A.R.T. -- the OS does not do the job.

FYI: still doesn't properly, BTW - OS X does not provide SMART status for 
external drives, unless you install an additional kext:
https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver .
But SMART status isn't everything: I've already had issues with a drive or 2 
where SMART considered the drive to be fine while it most definitely wasn't.

William: remember the Quantum harddrives that you had to help spin up when they 
reached a certain age? Other than that they were virtually indestructible :)

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Re: OT probably, help please

[William H. Magill]

> On Jan 22, 2015, at 4:29 AM, René J.V. Bertin  wrote:
> 
> On Thursday January 22 2015 08:56:25 James Linder wrote:
> 
>> I cannot explain why a (normally) rational, sane thinking idiot did not make 
>> that his first port of call (beautifully synced)
>> 
>> Jan 21 00:04:34 haycorn kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
>> 
>> Thanks everybody, and sorry for being an idiot
> 
> I wouldn't immediately think about disk i/o errors either from the symptoms 
> you described (not for short freezes in anyway). Not with an hdd anyway.
> What's in your logs around those I/O error messages, and what do the 
> smartmontools (in MacPorts) tell about the disk's health? smartctl -a 
> /dev/disk0 and do run smartctl -t long /dev/disk0 (disabling disk spin down 
> for the duration of the test as that would interrupt it)?
> 
> A bit too many reports of comparable symptoms in 10.9 somehow related to disk 
> I/O errors for my comfort zone. OS X wouldn't be doing something low level 
> that somehow stresses the disk hardware I hope?

Long ago in the days of Ultrix, there were some massive parts of the low-level 
disk-i/o that never saw the light of day.
(Ultrix from DEC being a direct BSD clone.)
None of the hardware level routines were addressed by any of the "accounting 
routines." Made performance look good, but debugging impossible.

Performance was unexplaninedly lower than the new hardware predicted.
After a tremendous amount of effort on the part of numerous kernel programmers 
at DEC, they discovered that the bottom level BSD I/O modules had not been 
"looked at" (literally) since PDP days. Disk I/O was being done in 128 byte 
blocks.
The new hardware had 4096 byte tracks. 
Calculate how many I/Os were required to write a single track!
Increasing the basic block size dramatically cut down on the number of I/Os and 
their consequent overhead - performance improvement was dramatic.

One thing which I noticed immediately when I turned on iCloud disk in Yosemite 
-- the "lag" involved with launching any program which stored anything "in the 
cloud."
Not unexpected, but significant none the less.

Similarly, I had a problem where my internal hard drive would literally not 
spin-up. 
Took the iMac in to the Apple Store and they ran their diagnostics and 
pronounced nothing wrong -- the tests passed with flying colors!

I finally convinced them that the drive was not spinning up and they got a tech 
to come out front who had a stethoscope and instantly verified that the drive 
was not spinning.

I've seen too many cases related to both BSD (and later Mach, i.e. NeXT and 
OSX) where much of the hardware level "stuff" is completely ignored by any of 
the upper-level reporting software. -- one of the main reasons why Drive 
manufacturers developed S.M.A.R.T. -- the OS does not do the job.

In my experience, by the time the OS flags a Disk error, you have been 
suffering constant performance degrading failures which are simply below the 
"reporting threshold", for quite some time.


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Re: OT probably, help please

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:02 AM, René J.V.  wrote:

> And yes, I do keep in mind that Apple has reasons to drive sales and
> incite people to buy new hardware and is probably not above tactics that
> decrease a product's theoretical lifetime.


I think there are a lot of things one can do that can have the side effect
of pushing the boundaries of hardware (this includes things like
compression). Not to mention things like SSD where you are explicitly
trading lifetime for performance. Searching for reasons to believe it's
just to drive obsolescence isn't particularly fruitful, unless you consider
paranoia an end in itself.

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Re: OT probably, help please

[René J . V . Bertin]

On Thursday January 22 2015 09:40:28 Brandon Allbery wrote:

> Just for one example (in the area of "complex systems"): HFS+'s hot file
> support is the sort of thing that can exacerbate failing disks... and the
> effect would get worse with certain kinds of changes to what files are
> "hot", which might well cause it to become more evident in a newer OS
> version.

I don't know if the hot file feature is what I was thinking with low level 
operations, but yes, it is something that could exacerbate failing disk by 
concentration frequent read/writes on a specific part of the disk.

> again it'll be too late to save your data. (Yes, yes, have backups ---
> guess what? Backups will *also* make this more obvious. So do you also

I guess you mean full backups which are a way of testing the entire set of 
sectors in use?

> disable backups because "they trigger disk errors"?)

What did you think I was suggesting?

I wasn't. I was asking.
And yes, I do keep in mind that Apple has reasons to drive sales and incite 
people to buy new hardware and is probably not above tactics that decrease a 
product's theoretical lifetime.

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Re: OT probably, help please

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:29 AM, René J.V.  wrote:

> I wouldn't immediately think about disk i/o errors either from the
> symptoms you described (not for short freezes in anyway). Not with an hdd
> anyway.


I would --- but that may be because I've seen it in action (most closely
related to this thread: freezes like that led me to discover that the HD in
my old iBook was kaput).

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Re: OT probably, help please

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:29 AM, René J.V.  wrote:

> A bit too many reports of comparable symptoms in 10.9 somehow related to
> disk I/O errors for my comfort zone. OS X wouldn't be doing something low
> level that somehow stresses the disk hardware I hope?


Just for one example (in the area of "complex systems"): HFS+'s hot file
support is the sort of thing that can exacerbate failing disks... and the
effect would get worse with certain kinds of changes to what files are
"hot", which might well cause it to become more evident in a newer OS
version.

And I don't think the right answer here is "simplify" because that just
covers up the fact that it's failing, ensuring that when it becomes obvious
again it'll be too late to save your data. (Yes, yes, have backups ---
guess what? Backups will *also* make this more obvious. So do you also
disable backups because "they trigger disk errors"?)

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Re: OT probably, help please

[James Linder]

> On 22 Jan 2015, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote:
> 
>> 
>> change mail from one entry to another: wheel turns for 10-20 seconds then 
>> all is normal including change topic (repeat previous selection).
>> firefox:youtube watch a clip, midway stops playing and wheel turns for 5-10 
>> seconds before resuming
>> 
>> Thinking this may be a DNS issue I ran wireshark. wiresharks stops while 
>> wheel is turning!
>> 
>> system-monitor shows no (just got the wheel for 5 secs, no response to 
>> usb-keyboard nothing interesting on system-monitor) sys-monitor (pause 
>> again!) ticks every 5 secs even during wheel turning.
>> 
> 
> What do you see in the system.log when (or after...) one of those "wheelies"? 
> Do you have power napping and what have you active?
> 
> Did you use a 10.10 public beta and upgrade to the release version without 
> doing a clean install?
> 
> I *hate* the app nap and sudden termination features that were introduced in 
> 10.9 (it appears they actually experimented with app nap based on 
> SIGSTOP/SIGCONT ...), and am not really glad with the memory compression 
> features either. There's a defaults command to turn off app nap which I'd 
> advise for anyone rarely if ever running off a battery, but I have no idea 
> about tweaking that memory compression thing. And that's almost certainly 
> bound to slow down operation in a more continuous fashion than traditional 
> swap.


I cannot explain why a (normally) rational, sane thinking idiot did not make 
that his first port of call (beatifully synced)

Jan 21 00:04:34 haycorn kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.

Thanks everybody, and sorry for being an idiot
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Re: OT probably, help please

[James Linder]

> On 21 Jan 2015, at 2:38 pm, William H. Magill  wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 10:28 PM, James Linder  wrote:
>> 
>> G’day
>> The other day I reported that gnuplot had suddenly stopped working with term 
>> x11 but worked with term aqua.
>> Maybe it was just slow !
>> I have an issue where the system has (suddenly) become very slow …
>> 
>> iMac 27 top:cpu free 99 ish %
>> system-monitor also shows cpu cores at 0% busy
>> men free 8G
>> df 50 ish %
>> yosemite
>> 
>> change mail from one entry to another: wheel turns for 10-20 seconds then 
>> all is normal including change topic (repeat previous selection).
>> firefox:youtube watch a clip, midway stops playing and wheel turns for 5-10 
>> seconds before resuming
>> 
>> Thinking this may be a DNS issue I ran wireshark. wiresharks stops while 
>> wheel is turning!
>> 
>> system-monitor shows no (just got the wheel for 5 secs, no response to 
>> usb-keyboard nothing interesting on system-monitor) sys-monitor (pause 
>> again!) ticks every 5 secs even during wheel turning.
>> 
>> This seems unrelated to macports. Time machine is on an external USB disk 
>> and scheduled to run now (another pause checks:TM disk definitly NOT busy)
>> 
>> So before I nuke this install, any ideas gratefully acceped
>> James 
>> ___
> 
> Sounds like issues with Anti-malware virus programs. 
> The ones that insert themselves into your tcp/ip data stream to examine all 
> of your traffic so that you don't' download "bad stuff."
> 
> I had to shut off thtat processing in Sophos because it had gotten so bad 
> (i.e. taking FOREVER to load any program that talked to the internet.)
> 
> That was a "sudden" change in how Sophos was working. At first I thought it 
> was  simply because I had turned on the iCloud drive (which does impact 
> things).
> But after a lot of trial and no-luck turned off the option in Sophos.
> 
> Long ago I had tried Avast! and discovered that it's anti-malware was simply 
> horrible in what it did to a Mac.

BSD and linux are pretty much of a muchness here. There are no malware or 
virus’ for either so I don’t do anti-virus, hence it’s not that. Thanks too to 
Jeremy it does not look like appnap stuff. (but it could be)

The whole virus scenario is messy. It has been demonstrated as proof of 
concept. Apple’s forray into Konqueror oops I mean Safari is an example of how 
to do it wrong. You basically don’t need to protect your mac, but someone may 
find a weak spot. Will anti-virus save you? $1,000,000 question.

Meanwhile I s-s-st-stu-stutter along debating nuking this whole install …
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Re: OT probably, help please

[William H. Magill]

> On Jan 20, 2015, at 10:28 PM, James Linder  wrote:
> 
> G’day
> The other day I reported that gnuplot had suddenly stopped working with term 
> x11 but worked with term aqua.
> Maybe it was just slow !
> I have an issue where the system has (suddenly) become very slow …
> 
> iMac 27 top:cpu free 99 ish %
> system-monitor also shows cpu cores at 0% busy
> men free 8G
> df 50 ish %
> yosemite
> 
> change mail from one entry to another: wheel turns for 10-20 seconds then all 
> is normal including change topic (repeat previous selection).
> firefox:youtube watch a clip, midway stops playing and wheel turns for 5-10 
> seconds before resuming
> 
> Thinking this may be a DNS issue I ran wireshark. wiresharks stops while 
> wheel is turning!
> 
> system-monitor shows no (just got the wheel for 5 secs, no response to 
> usb-keyboard nothing interesting on system-monitor) sys-monitor (pause 
> again!) ticks every 5 secs even during wheel turning.
> 
> This seems unrelated to macports. Time machine is on an external USB disk and 
> scheduled to run now (another pause checks:TM disk definitly NOT busy)
> 
> So before I nuke this install, any ideas gratefully acceped
> James 
> ___

Sounds like issues with Anti-malware virus programs. 
The ones that insert themselves into your tcp/ip data stream to examine all of 
your traffic so that you don't' download "bad stuff."

I had to shut off thtat processing in Sophos because it had gotten so bad (i.e. 
taking FOREVER to load any program that talked to the internet.)

That was a "sudden" change in how Sophos was working. At first I thought it was 
 simply because I had turned on the iCloud drive (which does impact things).
But after a lot of trial and no-luck turned off the option in Sophos.

Long ago I had tried Avast! and discovered that it's anti-malware was simply 
horrible in what it did to a Mac.


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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# Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10.1 OSX Server (now 
dead)

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OT probably, help please

[James Linder]

G’day
The other day I reported that gnuplot had suddenly stopped working with term 
x11 but worked with term aqua.
Maybe it was just slow !
I have an issue where the system has (suddenly) become very slow …

iMac 27 top:cpu free 99 ish %
system-monitor also shows cpu cores at 0% busy
men free 8G
df 50 ish %
yosemite

change mail from one entry to another: wheel turns for 10-20 seconds then all 
is normal including change topic (repeat previous selection).
firefox:youtube watch a clip, midway stops playing and wheel turns for 5-10 
seconds before resuming

Thinking this may be a DNS issue I ran wireshark. wiresharks stops while wheel 
is turning!

system-monitor shows no (just got the wheel for 5 secs, no response to 
usb-keyboard nothing interesting on system-monitor) sys-monitor (pause again!) 
ticks every 5 secs even during wheel turning.

This seems unrelated to macports. Time machine is on an external USB disk and 
scheduled to run now (another pause checks:TM disk definitly NOT busy)

So before I nuke this install, any ideas gratefully acceped
James 
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Re: Help please

[James Linder]

On 23/02/2012, at 1:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> On Feb 21, 2012, at 22:44, James Linder wrote:
> 
> checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes
> checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no
> configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
> checking for Apple Foundation library... no
> configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your 
> environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
> configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation
 
 This is an error we've encountered a few times before, such as:
 
 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28452
 
 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30298
 
 We didn't receive further feedback from the reporters so were unable to 
 pursue the matter further. Can you attach your config.log? Maybe it will 
 shed further light.
 
 In #28452 we presumed software installed in /usr/local was interfering. Do 
 you have anything installed in /usr/local? If so, remove it and try again.
 
 In #30298 we presumed the user's operating system components had become 
 damaged and the OS should be reinstalled. So that's another avenue you 
 could pursue.
>>> 
>>> haycorn:~ # ls /usr/local
>>> .gitLibrary etc share
>>> .gitignore  README.md   include texlive
>>> Cellar  bin lib
>>> 
>>> This was put here by latex install ...
>>> 
>>> haycorn:~ # mv /usr/local/ /usr/oldlocal
>>> haycorn:~ # port -d selfupdate
>>> [snip]
>>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new 
>>> MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)
>>> 
>>> OK it'll take me a day or so to backup everything I want, so reinstall 
>>> (which will certainly work, it did work before) and I'll report back
>> 
>> Snow Leopard and install CD: Insert CD 'Instal Mac OS X': whirr whirr (1 
>> hour) {but this way is very easy)
>> 
>> then
>> 
>> ...
>> DEBUG: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for 
>> details)
>> while executing
>> "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated"
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new 
>> MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)
> 
> That portion of the error doesn't tell us anything other than something went 
> wrong. If you check back further in the log, was it the same "Could not find 
> a working Foundation implementation" error?

Aaaargh hangs head in shame! I had not reinstalled Xcode.

So
Reinstall OS
install Xcode

Everything running sweetly again.
Thanks for all the help.
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Re: Help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 21, 2012, at 22:44, James Linder wrote:

 checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes
 checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no
 configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
 checking for Apple Foundation library... no
 configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your 
 environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
 configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation
>>> 
>>> This is an error we've encountered a few times before, such as:
>>> 
>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28452
>>> 
>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30298
>>> 
>>> We didn't receive further feedback from the reporters so were unable to 
>>> pursue the matter further. Can you attach your config.log? Maybe it will 
>>> shed further light.
>>> 
>>> In #28452 we presumed software installed in /usr/local was interfering. Do 
>>> you have anything installed in /usr/local? If so, remove it and try again.
>>> 
>>> In #30298 we presumed the user's operating system components had become 
>>> damaged and the OS should be reinstalled. So that's another avenue you 
>>> could pursue.
>> 
>> haycorn:~ # ls /usr/local
>> .git Library etc share
>> .gitignore   README.md   include texlive
>> Cellar   bin lib
>> 
>> This was put here by latex install ...
>> 
>> haycorn:~ # mv /usr/local/ /usr/oldlocal
>> haycorn:~ # port -d selfupdate
>> [snip]
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new 
>> MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)
>> 
>> OK it'll take me a day or so to backup everything I want, so reinstall 
>> (which will certainly work, it did work before) and I'll report back
> 
> Snow Leopard and install CD: Insert CD 'Instal Mac OS X': whirr whirr (1 
> hour) {but this way is very easy)
> 
> then
> 
> ...
> DEBUG: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for 
> details)
>  while executing
> "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated"
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new 
> MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)

That portion of the error doesn't tell us anything other than something went 
wrong. If you check back further in the log, was it the same "Could not find a 
working Foundation implementation" error?


> OK next I'll format the disk then install and report

I would not have suggested that as the next step, but then again I have no 
further suggestions, so if you do this, let us know if it helps.


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Re: Help please

[James Linder]

Hi
[snip]

>> 
>>> checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes
>>> checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no
>>> configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
>>> checking for Apple Foundation library... no
>>> configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your environment, 
>>> preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
>>> configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation
>> 
>> This is an error we've encountered a few times before, such as:
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28452
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30298
>> 
>> We didn't receive further feedback from the reporters so were unable to 
>> pursue the matter further. Can you attach your config.log? Maybe it will 
>> shed further light.
>> 
>> In #28452 we presumed software installed in /usr/local was interfering. Do 
>> you have anything installed in /usr/local? If so, remove it and try again.
>> 
>> In #30298 we presumed the user's operating system components had become 
>> damaged and the OS should be reinstalled. So that's another avenue you could 
>> pursue.
> 
> 
> haycorn:~ # ls /usr/local
> .git  Library etc share
> .gitignoreREADME.md   include texlive
> Cellarbin lib
> 
> This was put here by latex install ...
> 
> haycorn:~ # mv /usr/local/ /usr/oldlocal
> haycorn:~ # port -d selfupdate
> [snip]
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new 
> MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)
> 
> OK it'll take me a day or so to backup everything I want, so reinstall (which 
> will certainly work, it did work before) and I'll report back

Snow Leopard and install CD: Insert CD 'Instal Mac OS X': whirr whirr (1 hour) 
{but this way is very easy)

then

...
DEBUG: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for 
details)
  while executing
"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new 
MacPorts base: shell command failed (see log for details)


OK next I'll format the disk then install and report

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Re: Help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 19, 2012, at 18:46, James Linder wrote:

>>> I re-installed macports from the dmg and got errors.
>> 
>> This should have worked, so please elaborate on the problems you experienced.
>> 
>>> I moved /opt/local to /opt/oldlocal and reinstalled.
>> 
>> Using the dmg again? And now it succeeded?
> ---
> As below - fail
> ---

[snip]

> MacPorts base version 2.0.0 installed,
> DEBUG: Rebuilding and reinstalling MacPorts if needed
> MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
> --->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.0.3

So clearly you haven't yet succeeded in updating MacPorts to the current 
version. Moving on...

[snip]

> checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes
> checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no
> configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
> checking for Apple Foundation library... no
> configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your environment, 
> preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
> configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation

This is an error we've encountered a few times before, such as:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28452

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30298

We didn't receive further feedback from the reporters so were unable to pursue 
the matter further. Can you attach your config.log? Maybe it will shed further 
light.

In #28452 we presumed software installed in /usr/local was interfering. Do you 
have anything installed in /usr/local? If so, remove it and try again.

In #30298 we presumed the user's operating system components had become damaged 
and the OS should be reinstalled. So that's another avenue you could pursue.


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Re: Help please

[James Linder]

On 20/02/2012, at 4:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Feb 19, 2012, at 06:21, James Linder wrote:
> 
>> On 19/02/2012, at 4:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 23:06, James Linder wrote:
>>> 
 On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
 
> On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote:
> 
>> sh-3.2# port install libgnome
>> Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
>> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
>> directory
> 
> Please clean ("sudo port clean libgnome") and try again, using the debug 
> flag ("sudo port -d install libgnome") so we can get more information.
> 
> The error "couldn't read file 
> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
> directory" is spurious and can be ignored. There should be a different, 
> real error elsewhere in the debug output that we can act upon.
 
 
 Sorry!
 
 sh-3.2# port -d install libgnome
 DEBUG: Changing to port directory: 
 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/gnome/libgnome
 DEBUG: OS darwin/10.8.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
 DEBUG: couldn't read file 
 "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
 directory
>>> 
>>> Ok, I take it back; the error message is real. And 
>>> /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl should exist. If it 
>>> does not, reinstall MacPorts. This will not affect the ports you've 
>>> installed.
>> 
>> OK totally lost, so please suggest this or that.
>> I knowingly and willfully did nothing other than allow firefox to upgrade, 
>> but clearly there is trouble here:
> 
> Yes, at least one of the files which comprises MacPorts base appears to be 
> missing. I can't explain why that would be, but it doesn't matter much 
> either; just replace them by reinstalling MacPorts.
> 
>> I can format and reinstall *everything* if need be 
> 
> I don't see any evidence yet that would suggest that would be necessary.
> 
> 
>> I re-installed macports from the dmg and got errors.
> 
> This should have worked, so please elaborate on the problems you experienced.
> 
>> I moved /opt/local to /opt/oldlocal and reinstalled.
> 
> Using the dmg again? And now it succeeded?
---
As below - fail
---

>> Errors again:
>> 
>> haycorn:~ # port selfupdate
>> --->  Updating the ports tree
>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> MacPorts base version 2.0.0 installed,
>> MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
>> --->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.0.3
>> 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 failed (see log for details)
>> 
>> I looked for 'error' in 
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base/config.log
>> 
>> and got this mess:
>> haycorn:~ # grep error 
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base/config.log
>>  
>> Configured with: /var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2335.9~9/src/configure 
>> --disable-checking --enable-werror --prefix=/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2 
>> --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ 
>> --program-prefix=llvm- --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ 
>> --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin10 
>> --enable-llvm=/var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2335.9~9/dst-llvmCore/Developer/usr/local
>>  --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin10- --host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 
>> --target=i686-apple-darwin10 --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
>> Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5666.3~123/src/configure 
>> --disable-checking --enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man 
>> --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ 
>> --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --with-slibdir=/usr/lib 
>> --build=i686-apple-darwin10 --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin10- 
>> --host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 --target=i686-apple-darwin10 
>> --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.2.1
>> conftest.m:12:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
>> conftest.m:12:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/CarbonCore.h:33:31:
>>  error: CarbonCore/Finder.h: No such file or directory
> 
> I'm a bit unclear why MacPorts base would have any need for any part of 
> Carbon. Can you "sudo port -d selfupdate" and show us the output?

I included the whole log, I don't know which bits are ignorable ...
To repeat: This is a clean install of macports on a machine that has worked in 
the past
Ryan thanks for your help

I yesterday posted

Re: Help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 19, 2012, at 06:21, James Linder wrote:

> On 19/02/2012, at 4:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 23:06, James Linder wrote:
>> 
>>> On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> 
 On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote:
 
> sh-3.2# port install libgnome
> Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
> directory
 
 Please clean ("sudo port clean libgnome") and try again, using the debug 
 flag ("sudo port -d install libgnome") so we can get more information.
 
 The error "couldn't read file 
 "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
 directory" is spurious and can be ignored. There should be a different, 
 real error elsewhere in the debug output that we can act upon.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sorry!
>>> 
>>> sh-3.2# port -d install libgnome
>>> DEBUG: Changing to port directory: 
>>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/gnome/libgnome
>>> DEBUG: OS darwin/10.8.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
>>> DEBUG: couldn't read file 
>>> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
>>> directory
>> 
>> Ok, I take it back; the error message is real. And 
>> /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl should exist. If it 
>> does not, reinstall MacPorts. This will not affect the ports you've 
>> installed.
> 
> OK totally lost, so please suggest this or that.
> I knowingly and willfully did nothing other than allow firefox to upgrade, 
> but clearly there is trouble here:

Yes, at least one of the files which comprises MacPorts base appears to be 
missing. I can't explain why that would be, but it doesn't matter much either; 
just replace them by reinstalling MacPorts.

> I can format and reinstall *everything* if need be 

I don't see any evidence yet that would suggest that would be necessary.


> I re-installed macports from the dmg and got errors.

This should have worked, so please elaborate on the problems you experienced.

> I moved /opt/local to /opt/oldlocal and reinstalled.

Using the dmg again? And now it succeeded?

> Errors again:
> 
> haycorn:~ # port selfupdate
> --->  Updating the ports tree
> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
> MacPorts base version 2.0.0 installed,
> MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
> --->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.0.3
> 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 failed (see log for details)
> 
> I looked for 'error' in 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base/config.log
> 
> and got this mess:
> haycorn:~ # grep error 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base/config.log
>  
> Configured with: /var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2335.9~9/src/configure 
> --disable-checking --enable-werror --prefix=/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2 
> --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ 
> --program-prefix=llvm- --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ 
> --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin10 
> --enable-llvm=/var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2335.9~9/dst-llvmCore/Developer/usr/local
>  --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin10- --host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 
> --target=i686-apple-darwin10 --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
> Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5666.3~123/src/configure --disable-checking 
> --enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man 
> --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ 
> --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --with-slibdir=/usr/lib 
> --build=i686-apple-darwin10 --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin10- 
> --host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 --target=i686-apple-darwin10 
> --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.2.1
> conftest.m:12:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
> conftest.m:12:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/CarbonCore.h:33:31:
>  error: CarbonCore/Finder.h: No such file or directory

I'm a bit unclear why MacPorts base would have any need for any part of Carbon. 
Can you "sudo port -d selfupdate" and show us the output?



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Re: Help please

[James Linder]

On 19/02/2012, at 4:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2012, at 23:06, James Linder wrote:
> 
>> On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote:
>>> 
 sh-3.2# port install libgnome
 Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
 "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
 directory
>>> 
>>> Please clean ("sudo port clean libgnome") and try again, using the debug 
>>> flag ("sudo port -d install libgnome") so we can get more information.
>>> 
>>> The error "couldn't read file 
>>> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
>>> directory" is spurious and can be ignored. There should be a different, 
>>> real error elsewhere in the debug output that we can act upon.
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry!
>> 
>> sh-3.2# port -d install libgnome
>> DEBUG: Changing to port directory: 
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/gnome/libgnome
>> DEBUG: OS darwin/10.8.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
>> DEBUG: couldn't read file 
>> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
>> directory
> 
> Ok, I take it back; the error message is real. And 
> /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl should exist. If it does 
> not, reinstall MacPorts. This will not affect the ports you've installed.

OK totally lost, so please suggest this or that.
I knowingly and willfully did nothing other than allow firefox to upgrade, but 
clearly there is trouble here: I can format and reinstall *everything* if need 
be 

I re-installed macports from the dmg and got errors.
I moved /opt/local to /opt/oldlocal and reinstalled. Errors again:

haycorn:~ # port selfupdate
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.0.0 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
--->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.0.3
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 failed (see log for details)

I looked for 'error' in 
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base/config.log

and got this mess:
haycorn:~ # grep error 
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base/config.log
 
Configured with: /var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2335.9~9/src/configure 
--disable-checking --enable-werror --prefix=/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2 
--mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ 
--program-prefix=llvm- --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ 
--with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin10 
--enable-llvm=/var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2335.9~9/dst-llvmCore/Developer/usr/local
 --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin10- --host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 
--target=i686-apple-darwin10 --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5666.3~123/src/configure --disable-checking 
--enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man 
--enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ 
--program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --with-slibdir=/usr/lib 
--build=i686-apple-darwin10 --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin10- 
--host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 --target=i686-apple-darwin10 
--with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.2.1
conftest.m:12:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
conftest.m:12:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/CarbonCore.h:33:31:
 error: CarbonCore/Finder.h: No such file or directory
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/UTCUtils.h:24:34:
 error: CarbonCore/MacErrors.h: No such file or directory
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/Components.h:32:30:
 error: CarbonCore/Files.h: No such file or directory
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/Resources.h:48:
 error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'ResFileRefNum'
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/Resources.h:154:
 error: expected ')' before 'refNum'
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/Resources.h:184:
 error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'CurResFile'
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/Resources.h:199:
 error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'HomeResFile'
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/Resources.h:214:
 error: expected ')' before 'refNum'
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/Resources

Re: Help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 18, 2012, at 23:06, James Linder wrote:

> On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote:
>> 
>>> sh-3.2# port install libgnome
>>> Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
>>> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
>>> directory
>> 
>> Please clean ("sudo port clean libgnome") and try again, using the debug 
>> flag ("sudo port -d install libgnome") so we can get more information.
>> 
>> The error "couldn't read file 
>> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
>> directory" is spurious and can be ignored. There should be a different, real 
>> error elsewhere in the debug output that we can act upon.
> 
> 
> Sorry!
> 
> sh-3.2# port -d install libgnome
> DEBUG: Changing to port directory: 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/gnome/libgnome
> DEBUG: OS darwin/10.8.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
> DEBUG: couldn't read file 
> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
> directory

Ok, I take it back; the error message is real. And 
/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl should exist. If it does 
not, reinstall MacPorts. This will not affect the ports you've installed.



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Re: Help please

[James Linder]

On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote:
> 
>> sh-3.2# port install libgnome
>> Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
>> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
>> directory
> 
> Please clean ("sudo port clean libgnome") and try again, using the debug flag 
> ("sudo port -d install libgnome") so we can get more information.
> 
> The error "couldn't read file 
> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
> directory" is spurious and can be ignored. There should be a different, real 
> error elsewhere in the debug output that we can act upon.


Sorry!

 sh-3.2# port -d install libgnome
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: 
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/gnome/libgnome
DEBUG: OS darwin/10.8.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
DEBUG: couldn't read file 
"/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
directory
while executing
"source /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl"
("package ifneeded portmirror 1.0" script)
invoked from within
"package require portmirror 1.0"
(file "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/port.tcl" line 56)
invoked from within
"source /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/port.tcl"
("package ifneeded port 1.0" script)
invoked from within
"package require port $version "
(procedure "PortSystem" line 2)
invoked from within
"PortSystem  1.0"
(file "Portfile" line 4)
invoked from within
"source Portfile"
invoked from within
"$workername eval source Portfile"
(procedure "mportopen" line 47)
invoked from within
"mportopen $porturl [array get options] [array get requested_variations]"
Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
"/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
directory
To report a bug, see 

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Re: Help please

[James Linder]

On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote:
> 
>> sh-3.2# port install libgnome
>> Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
>> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
>> directory
> 
> Please clean ("sudo port clean libgnome") and try again, using the debug flag 
> ("sudo port -d install libgnome") so we can get more information.
> 
> The error "couldn't read file 
> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
> directory" is spurious and can be ignored. There should be a different, real 
> error elsewhere in the debug output that we can act upon.

sh-3.2# port clean libgnome
Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
"/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
directory
To report a bug, see 
sh-3.2# port install libgnome
Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
"/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
directory
To report a bug, see 


OK the whole shebang ...

sh-3.2# port selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated
sh-3.2# port clean libgnome
Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
"/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
directory
To report a bug, see 
sh-3.2# port install libgnome
Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
"/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
directory
To report a bug, see 

Pardon the sparse prompt, not using my usual term :-)
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Re: Help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote:

> sh-3.2# port install libgnome
> Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
> directory

Please clean ("sudo port clean libgnome") and try again, using the debug flag 
("sudo port -d install libgnome") so we can get more information.

The error "couldn't read file 
"/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
directory" is spurious and can be ignored. There should be a different, real 
error elsewhere in the debug output that we can act upon.


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Help please

[James Linder]

G'day

for ages I've been using gnome-terminal. Today it would not start (The ONLY 
thing I did was allow firefox to upgrade)

This describes my fault exactly:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27235

dutifully I installed libgnome after selfupdate:
(
sh-3.2# port selfupdate
Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated
)

sh-3.2# port install libgnome
Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file 
"/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no such file or 
directory
To report a bug, see 
sh-3.2# 
sh-3.2#  (it's not there)
sh-3.2# 
sh-3.2# ls /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/
fetch_common.tclportdepends.tcl portmain.tcl
pkgIndex.tclportdestroot.tclportpatch.tcl
port.tclportdistcheck.tcl   portstartupitem.tcl
port_autoconf.tcl   portdistfiles.tcl   portsubmit.tcl
portactivate.tclportextract.tcl porttest.tcl
portbuild.tcl   portfetch.tcl   porttrace.tcl
portchecksum.tclportinstall.tcl portuninstall.tcl
portclean.tcl   portlint.tclportunload.tcl
portconfigure.tcl   portlivecheck.tcl   portutil.tcl
portdeactivate.tcl  portload.tcl
sh-3.2# 

Developer Information:

  Version:  4.0 (4A2002a)
  Location: /Developer
  Applications:
  Xcode:4.0.2 (99)
  Instruments:  4.0 (3538)
  Dashcode: 3.0.2 (333)
  SDKs:
  Mac OS X:
  10.6: (4A2002a)

Can any kind sole guide me, I'm quite lost ...
Thanks
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Re: uninstall help please

[John B Brown]

Dear Ryan,

	The environment has been scrubbed along with the /opt/local tree. I'm 
using a GNU gcc-4.5.0 bootstrapped using the Xcode compiler. It was 
compiled after I removed all trace of /opt/local. There are two places 
where libintl resides on this box; /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib. Why the 
compiler is looking in /opt/local/lib, and why it is not seeing the ones 
that do exist...I'm at sea about that.


	I am now unable to reproduce the error. I used a different configure 
command, 'configure --disable-asm --disable-libtool-lock.' That 'solved' 
both the early asm fail problem and the library fail problem.


	Argh! I can no more explain that than a hole in the ground. Its not the 
first time. I've had problems with both libintl and libiconv being 
looked for in /opt/local/lib. I gave up those compiles because I don't 
know how to trace that problem.


On 5/11/10 10:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

On May 11, 2010, at 22:42, John B Brown wrote:


After following my own advice and the directions, I find I have a 
serious problem. In compiling programs that use libintl, the linker looks for 
libintl in /opt/local/lib and there is no such tree on my system. After the 
uninstall process I wiped that entire /opt/local tree.

How do I correct my system so the compiler no longer looks for anything 
under /opt/local?



Did you start trying to build this software when you had MacPorts installed? If so, it 
could be remembering those paths that it found back then. Try "make clean" to 
clear out that knowledge, then ./configure again.


	I downloaded and unpacked the files today. All trace of /opt/local has 
been scrubbed from my environment variables.



LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/X11/lib:/opt/schily/lib:/usr/lib


 and


DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/X11/lib:/opt/schily/lib:/usr/lib


and


PATH=/Users/jbb/bin:/opt/schily/bin:/opt/schily/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/etc:/usr/local/etc:/usr/etc:/home/jbb/bin/ORIG/.../F1/A:.




If that's not it, please show us the command you used to try to compile your program and the output you got.Some environment variables that would cause it to look there would 
include CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS containing -I/opt/local/include, LDFLAGS 
containing -L/opt/local/lib, C_INCLUDE_PATH containing 
/opt/local/include, or LIBRARY_PATH containing /opt/local/lib. Perhaps 
you have some of those set in your environment. But even if you did, 
that should just influence where software searches for things, and if 
there's nothing there, then it wouldn't find or attempt to use it there.









Shalom,

John B. Brown.
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Buffalo, Wyoming
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Re: uninstall help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 11, 2010, at 22:42, John B Brown wrote:

>   After following my own advice and the directions, I find I have a 
> serious problem. In compiling programs that use libintl, the linker looks for 
> libintl in /opt/local/lib and there is no such tree on my system. After the 
> uninstall process I wiped that entire /opt/local tree.
> 
>   How do I correct my system so the compiler no longer looks for anything 
> under /opt/local?


Did you start trying to build this software when you had MacPorts installed? If 
so, it could be remembering those paths that it found back then. Try "make 
clean" to clear out that knowledge, then ./configure again.

If that's not it, please show us the command you used to try to compile your 
program and the output you got. Some environment variables that would cause it 
to look there would include CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS containing -I/opt/local/include, 
LDFLAGS containing -L/opt/local/lib, C_INCLUDE_PATH containing 
/opt/local/include, or LIBRARY_PATH containing /opt/local/lib. Perhaps you have 
some of those set in your environment. But even if you did, that should just 
influence where software searches for things, and if there's nothing there, 
then it wouldn't find or attempt to use it there.


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uninstall help please

[John B Brown]

Dear Folk,  

	After following my own advice and the directions, I find I have a 
serious problem. In compiling programs that use libintl, the linker 
looks for libintl in /opt/local/lib and there is no such tree on my 
system. After the uninstall process I wiped that entire /opt/local tree.


	How do I correct my system so the compiler no longer looks for anything 
under /opt/local?


Shalom,

John B. Brown.
[...@vcn.com]
358 High Street,
Buffalo, Wyoming
82834

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the freedom to make mistakes"  Mahatma Gandhi
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Re: uninstall help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 2, 2010, at 14:39, Scott Haneda wrote:
> On May 2, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> On May 1, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> Somewhat frequently I too get about 5 KB/sec (guess that's about 30 kb/sec) 
>>> from this server. Other times it's plenty fast. This has been going on for 
>>> awhile:
>>> 
>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-July/005596.html
>> 
>> It might be interesting to get a wireshark capture (or tcpdump) to try and 
>> troubleshoot this some and see if we can figure out what is going on (and if 
>> there's something that could be done to make it better).
> 
> I would be happy to do this, is there a particularly large file I can curl 
> down while running a capture?

The biggest distfile I currently have downloaded is the one for qt4-mac which 
weighs in at 152MB.


> Also perhaps another hostname other than distfiles.macports.org so I can do a 
> side by side comparison?

"port distfiles qt4-mac" shows you all the locations the file is available.


> As it is now, I get really good download rates:
> 
> curl -O http://distfiles.macports.org/apache20/httpd-2.0.61.tar.bz2
>  % Total% Received % Xferd  Average Speed   TimeTime Time  Current
> Dload  Upload   Total   SpentLeft  Speed
> 100 4472k  100 4472k0 0  1415k  0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:-- 1454k
> 
> $curl -O http://distfiles.macports.org/gimp2/gimp-2.6.8.tar.bz2
>  % Total% Received % Xferd  Average Speed   TimeTime Time  Current
> Dload  Upload   Total   SpentLeft  Speed
> 100 15.5M  100 15.5M0 0  1564k  0  0:00:10  0:00:10 --:--:-- 1641k
> 
> I also just ran mtr to for about 5 minutes, and 0% packet loss, which in all 
> honesty, is unusual, almost all routes will have some packet loss over 5 
> minutes.  Though I do have a very direct route going from Comcast right to 
> level 3 and then hitting macosforge.org.

Yeah, you may not be affected by the issue. Or the issue may be intermittent.


> For those who get 5KB/s can you post your location, and run a trace from your 
> location to distfiles.macports.org.  For what it is worth, I can get that 
> route to barf on me by upping the packet size, but I also find that is pretty 
> normal and consistent to any route.

I'm on a variety of residential networks in Austin, TX, but I've also seen the 
problem on a residential network in San Antonio, TX:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-July/005610.html


> How do we know this is not just a bandwidth issue? Ping is used to determine 
> and choose the route, but that has nothing to do with network saturation on 
> the actual box.  Perhaps there is simply a lot of activity on the machine, or 
> network.  What are the specifications of the network this server is connected 
> to?


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Re: uninstall help please

[Scott Haneda]

On May 2, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On May 1, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Somewhat frequently I too get about 5 KB/sec (guess that's about 30 kb/sec) 
>> from this server. Other times it's plenty fast. This has been going on for 
>> awhile:
>> 
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-July/005596.html
> 
> It might be interesting to get a wireshark capture (or tcpdump) to try and 
> troubleshoot this some and see if we can figure out what is going on (and if 
> there's something that could be done to make it better).

I would be happy to do this, is there a particularly large file I can curl down 
while running a capture?  Also perhaps another hostname other than 
distfiles.macports.org so I can do a side by side comparison?

As it is now, I get really good download rates:

curl -O http://distfiles.macports.org/apache20/httpd-2.0.61.tar.bz2
  % Total% Received % Xferd  Average Speed   TimeTime Time  Current
 Dload  Upload   Total   SpentLeft  Speed
100 4472k  100 4472k0 0  1415k  0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:-- 1454k

$curl -O http://distfiles.macports.org/gimp2/gimp-2.6.8.tar.bz2
  % Total% Received % Xferd  Average Speed   TimeTime Time  Current
 Dload  Upload   Total   SpentLeft  Speed
100 15.5M  100 15.5M0 0  1564k  0  0:00:10  0:00:10 --:--:-- 1641k

I also just ran mtr to for about 5 minutes, and 0% packet loss, which in all 
honesty, is unusual, almost all routes will have some packet loss over 5 
minutes.  Though I do have a very direct route going from Comcast right to 
level 3 and then hitting macosforge.org.

For those who get 5KB/s can you post your location, and run a trace from your 
location to distfiles.macports.org.  For what it is worth, I can get that route 
to barf on me by upping the packet size, but I also find that is pretty normal 
and consistent to any route.

How do we know this is not just a bandwidth issue? Ping is used to determine 
and choose the route, but that has nothing to do with network saturation on the 
actual box.  Perhaps there is simply a lot of activity on the machine, or 
network.  What are the specifications of the network this server is connected 
to?
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Re: uninstall help please

[Daniel J. Luke]

On May 1, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Somewhat frequently I too get about 5 KB/sec (guess that's about 30 kb/sec) 
> from this server. Other times it's plenty fast. This has been going on for 
> awhile:
> 
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-July/005596.html

It might be interesting to get a wireshark capture (or tcpdump) to try and 
troubleshoot this some and see if we can figure out what is going on (and if 
there's something that could be done to make it better).

--
Daniel J. Luke  
 
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Re: uninstall help please

[David Nicholls]

Andrea D'Amore wrote:

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt  wrote:

I don't think Mac OS Forge is imposing any transfer limits, and MacPorts is 
small enough that even tripling the download size wouldn't matter.


Interesting enough I have always got and still get about 30 kb/s from
macosforge, this is particularly evident for XQuartz. I workaround
proxying the file on a computer at uni, where it downloads at about
350 kb/s. I always wondered if it was a routing issue of my ISP or
what.



It may be a packet size problem on a router somewhere between you and 
macosforge.  Seems to slow things down a lot.  The most extreme version 
is the "black hole router" problem, where nothing gets through.


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Re: uninstall help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 1, 2010, at 00:43, Andrea D'Amore wrote:

> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> I don't think Mac OS Forge is imposing any transfer limits, and MacPorts is 
>> small enough that even tripling the download size wouldn't matter.
> 
> Interesting enough I have always got and still get about 30 kb/s from
> macosforge, this is particularly evident for XQuartz. I workaround
> proxying the file on a computer at uni, where it downloads at about
> 350 kb/s. I always wondered if it was a routing issue of my ISP or
> what.

Somewhat frequently I too get about 5 KB/sec (guess that's about 30 kb/sec) 
from this server. Other times it's plenty fast. This has been going on for 
awhile:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-July/005596.html


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Re: uninstall help please

[Andrea D'Amore]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt  wrote:
> I don't think Mac OS Forge is imposing any transfer limits, and MacPorts is 
> small enough that even tripling the download size wouldn't matter.

Interesting enough I have always got and still get about 30 kb/s from
macosforge, this is particularly evident for XQuartz. I workaround
proxying the file on a computer at uni, where it downloads at about
350 kb/s. I always wondered if it was a routing issue of my ISP or
what.

-- 
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Re: uninstall help please

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-5-1 04:23 , Adam Mercer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:27, Scott Mc Laughlin  wrote:
> 
>> scott-mc:~ scott$ sudo port -d selfupdate
>> Password:
>> dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no
>> suitable image found.  Did find:
>> /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: no matching
>> architecture in universal wrapper
>> while executing
>> "load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib"
>> ("package ifneeded Pextlib 1.0" script)
>> invoked from within
>> "package require Pextlib 1.0"
>> (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 40)
> 
> Looks like you used the wrong installer for your platform. Make sure
> you download the correct installer.

Possible, but it must have been a really old version or the installer
would have complained. The correct download location for the latest
version of MacPorts is .

The other possibility is that the OS was upgraded, in which case these
steps need to be followed:


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Re: uninstall help please

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 17:04, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Adam Mercer wrote:
> 
>> Looks like you used the wrong installer for your platform. Make sure
>> you download the correct installer.
> 
> Why is this possible?

As of MacPorts 1.7.1, it's not:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13141

Still, something got corrupted with the user's pextlib and perhaps other parts, 
so reinstalling MacPorts base is still the best suggestion.


> Is it possible to make just one installer, an installer that is smart enough 
> to know which bits to use depending on the platform you are trying to install 
> on?  It has always been a bit of a pain to locate the downloads page, figure 
> out which one to install etc.  A very minor bit of a pain, but one that I am 
> pretty sure could be solved.

The disk images we distribute are created by MacPorts itself using "sudo port 
dmg MacPorts"; you can read the rest of the release process here:

http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/portmgr/ReleaseProcess

We would like to be able to directly distribute what MacPorts has produced and 
not have to fiddle with it afterward. Personally, I have always wanted for 
MacPorts to build itself using the lowest-supported Mac OS X SDK (so that would 
currently be MacOSX10.4u.sdk); the resulting MacPorts should theoretically run 
on all our supported OSes. I have not tested this though, and if you wanted to 
see if that actually worked, that would probably be worthwhile. I had problems 
using the 10.4u SDK from 10.6 when 10.6 first came out; I may have been doing 
something wrong or this may have been early problems with Xcode 3.0 or it may 
still be broken. But even if we have to run the packaging script on a 10.4 or 
10.5 machine that wouldn't be a problem; we already have to run the packaging 
script on several different machines, one for each dmg we currently produce.


> This would bump up file size and download times, which may be the issue right 
> there, if there is some limitation in bandwidth and how much it costs the 
> project.

I don't think Mac OS Forge is imposing any transfer limits, and MacPorts is 
small enough that even tripling the download size wouldn't matter.

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Re: uninstall help please

[Scott Haneda]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Adam Mercer wrote:

> Looks like you used the wrong installer for your platform. Make sure
> you download the correct installer.

Why is this possible? Is Apple's packagemaker tool used for creating the 
MacPorts installer?  My very limited experience in using it, I seem to recall 
you can set a target for what systems will or will not accept the installer.  
Would this not be a good change to make to the installer, making it impossible 
to install the wrong version on the wrong system?

Is it possible to make just one installer, an installer that is smart enough to 
know which bits to use depending on the platform you are trying to install on?  
It has always been a bit of a pain to locate the downloads page, figure out 
which one to install etc.  A very minor bit of a pain, but one that I am pretty 
sure could be solved.  This would bump up file size and download times, which 
may be the issue right there, if there is some limitation in bandwidth and how 
much it costs the project.

Is there any interest in this?  Should I perhaps open a ticket?
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Re: uninstall help please

[Adam Mercer]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:27, Scott Mc Laughlin  wrote:

> scott-mc:~ scott$ sudo port -d selfupdate
> Password:
> dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no
> suitable image found.  Did find:
> /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: no matching
> architecture in universal wrapper
>     while executing
> "load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib"
>     ("package ifneeded Pextlib 1.0" script)
>     invoked from within
> "package require Pextlib 1.0"
>     (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 40)

Looks like you used the wrong installer for your platform. Make sure
you download the correct installer.

Cheers

Adam
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Re: uninstall help please

[John B Brown]

Dear Scott,

If you wish to uninstall macports and try over again here are 
directions.

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html

Works for me.

On 4/30/10 11:27 AM, Scott Mc Laughlin wrote:

hi,

this is my first time using macports, I have poor skills and limited
experience with non drag'n'drop installations so hopefully this makes sense
to you. I'm on OSX 10.6.3

I installed macports then ran the selfupdate, I had to leave and I think the
computer went to sleep while the update was happening (it had been running
40mins before I had to leave). Now the port command is not functioning, nor
is the the uninstall command working. In both cases I get the errors below.
Can I delete it all and start again? (I'm trying to load libvorbis so that I
can use Icecast streaming).

Thanks,
Scott


scott-mc:~ scott$ sudo port -d selfupdate
Password:
dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no
suitable image found.  Did find:
  /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: no matching
architecture in universal wrapper
 while executing
"load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib"
 ("package ifneeded Pextlib 1.0" script)
 invoked from within
"package require Pextlib 1.0"
 (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 40)




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Re: uninstall help please

[Andrea D'Amore]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Scott Mc Laughlin  wrote:

> Can I delete it all and start again?

"it" the single library or "it" the whole macports installation?
IMHO you could as well reinstall the pkg again over the existing
macports installation.


> Thanks,
> Scott

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uninstall help please

[Scott Mc Laughlin]

hi,

this is my first time using macports, I have poor skills and limited
experience with non drag'n'drop installations so hopefully this makes sense
to you. I'm on OSX 10.6.3

I installed macports then ran the selfupdate, I had to leave and I think the
computer went to sleep while the update was happening (it had been running
40mins before I had to leave). Now the port command is not functioning, nor
is the the uninstall command working. In both cases I get the errors below.
Can I delete it all and start again? (I'm trying to load libvorbis so that I
can use Icecast streaming).

Thanks,
Scott


scott-mc:~ scott$ sudo port -d selfupdate
Password:
dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no
suitable image found.  Did find:
 /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: no matching
architecture in universal wrapper
while executing
"load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib"
("package ifneeded Pextlib 1.0" script)
invoked from within
"package require Pextlib 1.0"
(file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 40)
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Re: molden for mac - help please

[Jochen Küpper]

Hi,

thank for your messages. I am glad you got it working.

> One thing still strange: I still got a checksum inconsistency  
> problem, that is, checksums are different between the portfile and  
> the distfile fetched from the official molden website. I got around  
> this problem by editing the checksum codes in the portfile.

This is due to a stealth maintainer upgrade of molden (sadly this is  
quite common for molden). If you encounter this problem again, please  
report it at trac.macports.org.
I have now updated the Portfile for the latest molden version and it  
should work out of the box.
However, I did nothing else than updating the checksums and bumping  
the revision, so there is no need for you to upgrade right now.

Greetings,
Jochen
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Help Please!! :s

[Chris Osborne]

Hi,Im reasonably new to unix etc. I've been using mac all my life (I'm only
13) and now I've attempted to install GNOME from the port. But i've lost the
sudo command for opening the launchdaemons at login and also I've edited my
.xinitrc like the macports site said but whenever I try to open GNOME it
says   "could not load GNOME settings daemon" and when I navigate to where
the daemon is located it appears as a mac os classic app which I can't open
(Late 2006 MacBook 2.0ghz 1gb 80gb). Any help would be greaty appreciated.

One more thing... I appear to get a vibrating login box called X appearing
over my screen asking for a username. What can I put in it pleasebecause I
cant get rid of it and it rejects every username I put in it.

Thanks

Chris Osborne
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