Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#26212 closed defect (invalid)

py-gobject can't be activated without sufficient permissions to write to the registry

Reported by: abdel.g.martinez.l@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 1.9.1
Keywords: Cc:
Port: py-gobject

Description (last modified by blb@…) 

port -f activate py-gobject
Warning: Failed to open Portfile from registry for py-gobject @2.18.0_0
--->  Activating py-gobject
Error: port activate failed: sqlite error: attempt to write a readonly database (8)

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by blb@…

Description: modified (diff)
Milestone: MacPorts 1.9.2

Why are you using -f? Be sure to read the FAQ entry as using -f at the wrong time could be a very bad thing.

In this particular case, it looks like you are simply not using sudo: 

sudo port activate py-gobject

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Cc: abdel.g.martinez.l@… removed
Resolution: → invalid
Status: new → closed
Summary: py26-gobject → py-gobject can't be activated without sufficient permissions to write to the registry
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