Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#29000 closed defect

port upgrade, install... fail with "invalid command name registry::exlcusive_lock" — at Version 1

Reported by: andrew.long@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 1.9.2
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description (last modified by jmroot (Joshua Root))

Ran "sudo port selfupdate" - ran to completion as follows:- 

saganami-island:~ andy$ sudo port selfupdate
Password:
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 1.9.2 installed,
MacPorts base version 1.9.2 downloaded.
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated

Then ran sudo port update outdated 

saganami-island:~ andy$ sudo port upgrade outdated
Error: Unable to upgrade port: invalid command name "registry::exclusive_lock"
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

SImilar failure when trying to install mercurial

Regards, Andy

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Component: ports → base
Description: modified (diff)

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I can only guess that your base install is messed up somehow, maybe some files are from an older version.

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