upgrading to 2.3.0 fails in "making installing in doc"

[djosifovich@…]

===> making install in doc
/usr/bin/install -c -d -o macports -g 42051 -m 0755 "/Realms/MEI/desert-plateau/Tools/MacPorts/opt/local"
/usr/bin/install -c -d -o macports -g 42051 -m 0755 "/Realms/MEI/desert-plateau/Tools/MacPorts/opt/local/etc/macports"
< prefix.mtree /usr/sbin/mtree -U -e -p "/Realms/MEI/desert-plateau/Tools/MacPorts/opt/local" > /dev/null
mtree: line 6: unknown group 42051
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 1
Command failed: cd /Realms/MEI/desert-plateau/Tools/MacPorts/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base && CC=/usr/bin/cc OBJC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix=/Realms/MEI/desert-plateau/Tools/MacPorts/opt/local --with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl --with-install-user=macports --with-install-group=42051 --with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1
Exit code: 2
Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed
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Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed

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The above occurred from "sudo port -v selfupdate" on updated 10.9.3 running on MBP.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

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[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

It seems your MacPorts prefix belongs to a group that doesn't exist on your system. Please change the group of /Realms/MEI/desert-plateau/Tools/MacPorts/opt/local to one that exists on your local system and try again.

Let me know if that fixes the problem.

[djosifovich@…]

The problem is fixed. I didn't change the GID on the files/dirs, but I fixed the "corrupted" groups's entry fixing the primary group id back to 42051. The "port selfupdate" now completes.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, so it sounds like this was a problem with the users and groups system of your OS, not a MacPorts problem.