Failed Initialization and Failed port extract

[Aegershen@…]

I keep attempting to install a port that is local and it gives me the error of:

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, Port extract failed: tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/Users/jonathan/Users/jonathan/ports'

It seemed to duplicate the Users/jonathan part of the code and i haven't been able to figure out why. i think that might be the problem because i have talked to people who were able to get the same port running. Some help would be appreciated.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Exactly what command did you type, in what directory? Can you show us the Portfile you're using?

[Aegershen@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Exactly what command did you type, in what directory? Can you show us the Portfile you're using?

sudo port install gonstruct

the folder the port is in is just ~/
what do you mean by portfile? the folder form the port i'm useing?

[Aegershen@…]

I guess i probably should have started with this...

Port extract failed: tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/Users/jonathan/Users/jonathan/ports'
    while executing
"macports::fetch_port $path 1"
    (procedure "macports::getportdir" line 12)
    invoked from within
"macports::getportdir $source"
    (procedure "macports::getindex" line 4)
    invoked from within
"macports::getindex $source"
    (procedure "_mports_load_quickindex" line 11)
    invoked from within
"_mports_load_quickindex"
    (procedure "mportinit" line 536)
    invoked from within
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, Port extract failed: tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/Users/jonathan/Users/jonathan/ports'

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Where is the port "gonstruct" defined? There has to be a file called "Portfile" somewhere that describes this port, and it's not in our standard ports repository. (You said it's a local port.) Where is it on disk? (Is it /Users/jonathan/Portfile or /Users/jonathan/ports/gonstruct/Portfile or what?) How have you informed MacPorts that it should look in that location for the port? (Have you edited sources.conf? If so what did you put there?)

[Aegershen@…]

I edited sources.conf and put in

file://Users/jonathan/ports

above any url ports.
the portfile for gonstruct is in the folder /Users/jonathan/ports/games/gonstruct

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Three slashes are needed in file: protocol URLs.

file:///Users/jonathan/ports

[Aegershen@…]

ok, so that worked, but then i got an error but i'm not quite sure where. Here is the error if you can do anything with it.

Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install glib2
Log for glib2 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_glib2/glib2/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: gtkglarea2 gtk2 atk glib2 glib2 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 pkgconfig pkgconfig p5.12-getopt-long p5.12-pathtools p5.12-scalar-list-utils p5.12-xml-parser iso-codes libxslt libxml2 libxml2 libxslt py27-libxml2 python27 db46 libedit python_select sqlite3 python27 py27-libxml2 rarian getopt gdk-pixbuf2 jasper jpeg libpng tiff hicolor-icon-theme pango Xft2 fontconfig freetype xrender xorg-libX11 xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-xproto xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libxcb xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-renderproto cairo apple-gcc42 gcc_select libpixman xorg-xcb-util shared-mime-info xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXext xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto mesa makedepend xorg-dri2proto xorg-glproto xorg-libXmu xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice gtkmm atkmm glibmm libsigcxx2 cairomm pangomm gtksourceview2 ruby readline
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I'm going to try and redownload the ports folder maybe i messed something up playing with it before.
Unless there is something in the error that's not on my end i think that might fix it.

[Aegershen@…]

Replying to Aegershen@…:

ok, so that worked, but then i got an error but i'm not quite sure where. Here is the error if you can do anything with it.

Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install glib2
Log for glib2 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_glib2/glib2/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: gtkglarea2 gtk2 atk glib2 glib2 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 pkgconfig pkgconfig p5.12-getopt-long p5.12-pathtools p5.12-scalar-list-utils p5.12-xml-parser iso-codes libxslt libxml2 libxml2 libxslt py27-libxml2 python27 db46 libedit python_select sqlite3 python27 py27-libxml2 rarian getopt gdk-pixbuf2 jasper jpeg libpng tiff hicolor-icon-theme pango Xft2 fontconfig freetype xrender xorg-libX11 xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-xproto xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libxcb xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-renderproto cairo apple-gcc42 gcc_select libpixman xorg-xcb-util shared-mime-info xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXext xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto mesa makedepend xorg-dri2proto xorg-glproto xorg-libXmu xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice gtkmm atkmm glibmm libsigcxx2 cairomm pangomm gtksourceview2 ruby readline
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I'm going to try and redownload the ports folder maybe i messed something up playing with it before.
Unless there is something in the error that's not on my end i think that might fix it.

redownloading it didn't work...

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

File a new ticket about glib2, if none of the existing tickets about glib2 describe the problem, and if you've already selfupdated and upgraded outdated ports; I've fixed some glib2 things recently.