problem initializing macports

[William Davis]

On Nov 26, 2007, at 5:39 AM, tania habib wrote:

> I have Macbook Pro with mac osx 10.4, I previously installed the
> macports on the same machine and it was running perfectly. Then I did
> not use it for a while and now when I go to the terminal window, and
> type port it gives me this error
> no suitable image found.  Did find:
>        /opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib:
> mach-o, but wrong architecture
>    while executing
> "load /opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib"
>    ("package ifneeded" script)
>    invoked from within
> "package_native require Pextlib 1.0"
>    ("eval" body line 1)
>    invoked from within
> "eval package_native $args"
>    (procedure "package" line 14)
>    invoked from within
> "package require Pextlib 1.0"
>    (procedure "dportinit" line 311)
>    invoked from within
> "dportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system, no
> suitable image found.  Did find:
>        /opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib:
> mach-o, but wrong architecture
>
> Should I uninstall the whole thing and start from the beginning or is
> there any other way?
>
> I have tried this command
>>> cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/receipts/
>>> find . -name receipt.bz2 | sed -E 's%^\./(.*)/(.*)/receipt\.bz2$% 
>>> \1 @\2%'
> but I do not know what to do next!
>
> Please let me know an easier way out of this mess!
>
> tania

Tania, I think Paul wanted you to copy the results of that command (or  
the other one he gave you) and tell it to us.
However looking at error output above shows a reference to /opt/local/ 
share/darwinports/  ............
There is no darwinports directory in my own installation (version  
1.52) and I dont think the term "darwinports" has been used anywhere  
in a very long time since the Project is now called MacPorts.  This  
suggests you have a [b] very [/b] old version of the Macports system.  
Others can tell you if its updatable.

If you bash shell told you command not found when you tried to do sudo  
port -d selfupdate then your path is surely wrong. So you have two  
problems.  Were you in an xterm window or a Terminal window? were you  
logged in?
if you try the command env you will see yor environment values printed  
on screen. PATH should START:

PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:bunch_of_other_stuff

Does it?




>
> On Nov 25, 2007 10:39 PM, paul beard <paulbeard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/25/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Nov 25, 2007, at 13:29, paul beard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/25/07, Ryan Schmidt 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?
>>>
>>> Good question. It might not work then. We might have to dig deeper  
>>> to
>>> see what's installed. Like this:
>>>
>>> cd /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/
>>> find . -name receipt.bz2 | sed -E 's%^\./(.*)/(.*)/receipt\.bz2$% 
>>> \1 @
>>> \2%'
>>
>> Watch the line-wrap: that \2% should stay on the same line. Same  
>> below . . .
>> .
>>
>>> Or, for the user's version of DarwinPorts before the new layout, I
>>> hope this is it:
>>>
>>> cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/receipts/
>>> find . -name receipt.bz2 | sed -E 's%^\./(.*)/(.*)/receipt\.bz2$% 
>>> \1 @\2%'
>>>
>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> it sounds like the command is there but if the error message is
>>>> right, that the architecture is wrong.
>>>
>>> It sounds to me like the user is having to run "/opt/local/bin/port"
>>> because when just "port" is run this error was shown:
>>>
>>> On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:14, tania habib wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Nov 25, 2007 2:11 PM, William Davis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Did you try :
>>>>> sudo port -d selfupdate
>>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> Yes I did, but it comes with the error that "port:command not  
>>>> found".
>>>> I feel there is some path problem. Can please guide me through the
>>>> procedure of setting the path variable in X11!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
>> <paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at mac.com>
>>
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William Davis
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