On 11/25/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> wrote:

What Mac do you have? Did you previously have a different Mac, back
when you originally installed MacPorts? Maybe you used Migration
Assistant to transfer everything (including MacPorts) from the old
Mac to the new Mac? IF the old Mac was PowerPC-based and the new one
is Intel-based, that could explain the error you're seeing, and you
should really uninstall everything and start over. You can use "port
installed" to see what ports are installed.

How will that work if the port command doesn't run?

Once you reinstall
MacPorts, you can manually reinstall all those ports. To uninstall
MacPorts, follow these instructions:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/
FAQ#HowdoIremoveoruninstallMacPorts

If you're sure MacPorts previously worked on this Mac, then it
shouldn't be necessary to uninstall, though I can't yet explain what
else might be going on.

It also sounds like your PATH is not correct since it can't find the
port command.

Actually, it does seem to find it OK: if the user types 'port <something>' and the result is

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system, no
suitable image found. Did find:
/opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib:
mach-o, but wrong architecture