On Feb 4, 2018, at 16:05, Rainer Müller wrote: >> nickel% ls -ltrd /opt/local/var/macports/portdirs/ports/*dex*17* >> drwxr-xr-x 4 500 505 128 Jan 30 >> 15:17 /opt/local/var/macports/portdirs/ports/PortIndex_darwin_17_i386/ > > This looks like the directory belongs to a user id that has no > corresponding user, which is quite strange... Did you restore this > directory from a backup or something like that? You could try to use > chown/chmod as root to give permissions to the macports user to correct > this. > > If that does not help, it might even be a problem with the tarball > itself, but I have in fact never tried to sync from a local ports.tar.
Those (500, 505) are the uid and gid that own the files on the server that packages up the tarball. Is that a problem?