ImageMagick install failure: unable to execute port

[shirleyberry@…]

Installing imagemagick on osx 10.7.5 Lion. When I run sudo port install imagemagick I get the error

Error: Unable to execute port: Could not open file: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/Portfile

[shirleyberry@…]

Cc Me!

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

You don’t seem to have a ports tree. Make sure you have installed the latest version of Apple’s Command Line Tools by starting Xcode and going to Xcode > Preferences > Downloads > Components. Then run

sudo port selfupdate

to retrieve the latest ports tree, and try installing imagemagick again.

[shirleyberry@…]

Replying to larryv@…:

You don’t seem to have a ports tree. Make sure you have installed the latest version of Apple’s Command Line Tools by starting Xcode and going to Xcode > Preferences > Downloads > Components. Then run

sudo port selfupdate

to retrieve the latest ports tree, and try installing imagemagick again.

I did install apple's command line tools, and ran port selfupdate, and port upgrade outdated. When I run it, it says I have the latest version.

[shirleyberry@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Does the file /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/Portfile exist? If not, how much of that path does exist?

[shirleyberry@…]

Yes, it exists, and I'm able to manually open the portfile.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, then it's not a file not found situation as Larry presumed. When you tried to install ImageMagick, did MacPorts print the location of a main.log file? If so, please attach that log file here so we can see what all it says.

[shirleyberry@…]

No, all it printed was the error message.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, please try again with the debug switch and see if that prints any more information:

sudo port -d install ImageMagick

[shirleyberry@…]

Yep, here you go.

DEBUG: Copying /Users/gordonsmith/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick
DEBUG: OS darwin/11.4.2 (Mac OS X 10.7) arch i386
DEBUG: org.macports.load registered provides 'load', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.unload registered provides 'unload', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.distfiles registered provides 'distfiles', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: Using group file /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/archcheck-1.0.tcl
DEBUG: Using group file /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/conflicts_build-1.0.tcl
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Executing variant q16 provides q16
DEBUG: changing euid/egid - current euid: 0 - current egid: 0
DEBUG: egid changed to: 501
DEBUG: euid changed to: 503
DEBUG: Could not open file: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/Portfile
    while executing
"sha256 file ${portpath}/Portfile"
    (procedure "open_statefile" line 44)
    invoked from within
"open_statefile"
    (procedure "check_variants" line 29)
    invoked from within
"check_variants activate"
    invoked from within
"$workername eval check_variants $target"
    (procedure "mportexec" line 7)
    invoked from within
"mportexec $workername $target"
Error: Unable to execute port: Could not open file: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/Portfile

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Hmm, that doesn't really say much either.

Have you been able to install any other ports before? Are you able to install any ports other than this one now?

Maybe a permissions problem? Could we see the permissions of every component of that path?

ls -ld /opt /opt/local /opt/local/var /opt/local/var/macports /opt/local/var/macports/sources /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/Portfile

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

This might be dangerous, but you could always try using the -f flag (for "force") with your port command. I've had similar situations where doing that has solved it.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

I doubt -f will help in this case. The only relevant flag around this code location is -o, but specifying that will not stop the code from trying to generate a sha256 sum of the Portfile, which fails.

[shirleyberry@…]

No, I've never tried to install any other ports before (I'm a bit new to this, can you tell?), but I'll give that a try.

Getting the permissions turned up:

drwx------    5 gordonsmith  wheel    170 Mar 21 11:49 /opt
drwxr-xr-x   11 root         admin    374 Mar 21 11:16 /opt/local
drwxr-xr-x    3 root         admin    102 Jan 31 07:01 /opt/local/var
drwxr-xr-x   10 root         admin    340 Mar 21 11:16 /opt/local/var/macports
drwxr-xr-x    3 root         admin    102 Mar 20 14:24 /opt/local/var/macports/sources
drwxr-xr-x    3 root         admin    102 Mar 20 14:24 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org
drwxr-xr-x    3 root         admin    102 Mar 20 14:24 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release
drwxr-xr-x   10 root         admin    340 Mar 21 15:11 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
drwxr-xr-x   51 root         wheel   1734 Mar 21 15:12 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports
drwxr-xr-x  305 root         wheel  10370 Feb 26 18:00 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics
drwxr-xr-x    4 root         wheel    136 Mar 21 17:13 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick
-rw-r--r--    1 root         wheel   9467 Feb 27 09:01 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/Portfile

In reply to the second suggestion, what are the risks of forcing it?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Forcing it won't work.

I would say the problem is your /opt directory, which is configured so that only gordonsmith can read it. That means macports cannot read it. Change /opt to have 755 permission like its subdirectories. Then anyone can read it.

sudo chmod 755 /opt

[shirleyberry@…]

That did it, thank you so much for helping (and explaining everything so clearly)!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Glad that worked! Hope everything goes smoothly from now on. If you find bugs, please file new tickets; if you have other questions about MacPorts, you can write to the macports-users mailing list.