Failed at building Boost

[raramayo (Rodolfo Aramayo)]

Installing Inkscape is consistently failing. I have completely deleted my MacPorts Installation and started fresh, yet I get the following error:

--->  Building boost
error reading "file12": no such device or address
Log for boost is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost/main.log
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: boost gnome-vfs desktop-file-utils gconf dbus-glib dbus gtk-doc docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 docbook-xml-5.0 docbook-xsl gnome-doc-utils intltool gnome-common p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools p5-scalar-list-utils p5-xml-parser iso-codes libxslt py26-libxml2 rarian getopt gtk2 atk shared-mime-info xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto orbit2 libidl policykit eggdbus gnome-mime-data gsl gtkmm cairomm libsigcxx2 glibmm pangomm gtkspell2 enchant aspell hunspell libwpg libwpd libgsf libbonobo poppler openjpeg poppler-data py26-lxml py26-distribute py26-numpy atlas gcc44 gmp mpfr fftw-3 py26-nose py26-xml
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

Then when I try to repeat the command I get the following and the computer crashes completely:

genomics08:~ raramayo$ sudo port install Inkscape
sudo: can't stat /etc/sudoers: Device not configured

After this I lose control of the machine via terminal. Commands like "sudo su" or "who" do not work anymore. The messages I get are like this one:

"bash: /usr/bin/who: Operation not permitted"

and the only way to re-gain control is to reboot the machine

[raramayo (Rodolfo Aramayo)]

I should add, I am installing on three machines at the same time. One machine crashed while processing Boost. Another, passed that stage and crashed at a different stage:

Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: shell command failed
Log for gtk2 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_gtk2/main.log
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnome-vfs gconf gtk2 orbit2 libidl policykit eggdbus gnome-mime-data gsl gtkmm cairomm libsigcxx2 glibmm pangomm gtkspell2 enchant aspell hunspell libwpg libwpd libgsf libbonobo poppler openjpeg poppler-data py26-lxml py26-distribute py26-numpy atlas gcc44 gmp mpfr fftw-3 py26-nose py26-xml
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

While the third machine went on undisturbed...

After rebooting the machines that crashed, I re-run the Inkscape installation command and installation seems to finish successfully...

Can any one explain what is happening?

Thanks Guys. Thanks

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please use WikiFormatting so your posts are legible.

You have something extremely strange going on with your machine, but I have no idea what it is. You may wish to attach the main.log files for boost and gtk2 as referenced in the above error messages; perhaps they contain useful information.