#29324: sane-backends update issue ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: zelegolas@… | Owner: aguynamedryan+sane@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.9.2 Keywords: | Port: sane-backends ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by aguynamedryan+macports@…): I'm sorry to hear the upgrade isn't going smoothly for you. I did not encounter any activation errors on my end. In the past, when I encountered such problems with other ports, I simply run: {{{ sudo port -f activate some-port }}} and that seems to resolve the issue for me without causing any issues in the long run. I looked through a few pages of the wiki and found that most people recommend a similar course of action. These are the relevant links I found: * [wiki:FAQ#whentoforce] - a page that suggests you do as I describe above * [wiki:ProblemHotlist#xmlwf] - a page that suggests the more drastic approach of zapping your entire MacPorts installation (you probably want to avoid this) I also looked at tickets for other ports that have run into this problem: * This one suggests that if you have a case-sensitive filesystem, you might have a problem: (#28634) * The solution was to force the activation * This one also suggests that maybe you need to migrate from the flat DB to sqlite for you MacPorts database * This one suggests removing the file, then attempting activation again (#26757) * And this one suggests that these kinds of bugs are non-issues unless it can be demonstrated that MacPorts itself is failing to record files in its filemap (#26114) I stopped looking through tickets after that because the first handful I saw all seem to suggest that this is not a bug that a maintainer can really addres. I hope you find this information helpful. If you find there is anything else I can do, please let me know. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29324#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS