xorg-server @1.20.5_0: upgrade fails with "mkfontdir not registered as installed & active"

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

$ sudo port -t upgrade xorg-server
--->  Computing dependencies for xorg-server
--->  Fetching archive for xorg-server
--->  Installing xorg-server @1.20.5_0
Error: Registry error: mkfontdir not registered as installed & active.
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_macports-git_macports-ports_x11_xorg-server/xorg-server/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.

$ port info mkfontdir
mkfontdir @1.0.7_1
Replaced by:          mkfontscale
[...]

$ port installed name:mkfont
The following ports are currently installed:
  mkfontdir @1.0.7_0
  mkfontscale @1.2.1_0 (active)

This happened also with the previous update of xorg-server I performed: I could solve it by deactivating mkfontscale and activating mkfontdir, but I think this should be fixed without needing such a workaround.

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

Sorry, I forgot to say that I'm running MacPorts 2.5.4 on OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan).

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Please attach the main.log file.

mkfontdir is obsolete and no longer required. You should not have it installed. xorg-server does not depend on it anymore. So I don't think there is anything to fix here.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

@mf2k: And yet the registry is complaining about it. Hard to see how that could be user error.

@dliessi: Please do attach the main.log. You're right that manual intervention should not be required here.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

What surprises me in the log is:

:msg:main --->  Computing dependencies for xorg-server:info:main .:debug:main Checking for conflicts against xorg-server
:debug:main Searching for dependency: xorg-server-devel
:debug:main Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: xorg-server-devel
:debug:main Searching for dependency: xorg-server-1.18
:debug:main Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: xorg-server-1.18

The rest of the dependencies shown after that look reasonable, but why does it think that xorg-server-devel and xorg-server-1.18 are dependencies of xorg-server? They're not; they're alternatives to it.

The log also shows that the Portfiles are located in the nonstandard location /opt/macports-git/macports-ports. Is this a clone of the official GitHub macports/macports-ports repository or is it a fork or might it for some other reason have unofficial modifications to the xorg-server Portfile?

If your copy of the Portfile matches our official one, then I would point out that the log also says:

:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.fetch (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.checksum (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.extract (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.patch (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.configure (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.build (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.destroot (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.

"Skipping completed" means some phases were completed earlier, in other words this was not a clean installation attempt. So I would run sudo port clean xorg-server and then try again.

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

Replying to ryandesign:

The log also shows that the Portfiles are located in the nonstandard location /opt/macports-git/macports-ports. Is this a clone of the official GitHub macports/macports-ports repository or is it a fork or might it for some other reason have unofficial modifications to the xorg-server Portfile?

It is a clone of the official repository.

"Skipping completed" means some phases were completed earlier, in other words this was not a clean installation attempt. So I would run sudo port clean xorg-server and then try again.

Trying again:

$ sudo port -t selfupdate
Password:
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.5.4 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.5.4 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated
$ sudo port clean xorg-server
--->  Cleaning xorg-server
$ sudo port -t upgrade xorg-server
--->  Computing dependencies for xorg-server
--->  Fetching archive for xorg-server
--->  Installing xorg-server @1.20.5_0
Error: Registry error: mkfontdir not registered as installed & active.
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_macports-git_macports-ports_x11_xorg-server/xorg-server/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.

I'm attaching main.log.

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

updated main.log

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

Replying to ryandesign:

:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.fetch (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.checksum (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.extract (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.patch (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.configure (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.build (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.destroot (xorg-server)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.

These are present also in the new main.log. I guess that's because MacPorts tries to install from the pre-built archive, which has already been fetched and then skips all phases before install.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Yes, I agree.

But what the new transcript and log do not show, curiously, is the archive being downloaded. I guess this is because the downloaded archive is still in /opt/local/var/macports/incoming because the default for sudo port clean is to only clean the work directory. Try sudo port clean --work --archive xorg-server to also delete the archive, so that it will get downloaded again and we can verify that it's downloading the right thing from the right server.

Something else I might hesitantly suggest is uninstalling the xorg-server you currently have installed, with sudo port -f uninstall xorg-server, but if that still doesn't help, then you'll be left without any xorg-server at all until we figure this out, which might not be desirable.

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

$ sudo port clean --work --archive xorg-server
--->  Cleaning xorg-server
$ sudo port -t upgrade xorg-server
--->  Computing dependencies for xorg-server
--->  Fetching archive for xorg-server
--->  Attempting to fetch xorg-server-1.20.5_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://fco.it.packages.macports.org/mirrors/macports-packages/xorg-server
--->  Attempting to fetch xorg-server-1.20.5_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/xorg-server
--->  Attempting to fetch xorg-server-1.20.5_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/xorg-server
--->  Installing xorg-server @1.20.5_0
Error: Registry error: mkfontdir not registered as installed & active.
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_macports-git_macports-ports_x11_xorg-server/xorg-server/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.

New main.log attached.

Replying to ryandesign:

Something else I might hesitantly suggest is uninstalling the xorg-server you currently have installed, with sudo port -f uninstall xorg-server, but if that still doesn't help, then you'll be left without any xorg-server at all until we figure this out, which might not be desirable.

If I remember correctly, I already did this for the previous upgrade of xorg-server, which had the same problem for me. After the installation failed again I was able to reinstall xorg-server by deactivating mkfontscale and activating the old mkfontdir; then after the installation succeeded I activated mkfontscale again. I can try again, if you want.

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

main.log after cleaning the archive

[kencu (Ken)]

do you have any active repos other than the main macports repo?

do you have any ports downgraded to older versions manually by activating older versions?

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

Replying to kencu:

do you have any active repos other than the main macports repo?

No.

do you have any ports downgraded to older versions manually by activating older versions?

No.

$ port outdated
The following installed ports are outdated:
ntfs-3g                        2017.3.23_0 < 2017.3.23_1   
osxfuse                        3.7.1_0 < 3.8.3_0         
pstoedit                       3.73_2 < 3.74_0           
xorg-server                    1.20.4_0 < 1.20.5_0       

Updating osxfuse and ntfs-3g fails on my system (known problem), pstoedit fails because of #58602, everything else is up to date.

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

Replying to ryandesign:

Something else I might hesitantly suggest is uninstalling the xorg-server you currently have installed, with sudo port -f uninstall xorg-server, but if that still doesn't help, then you'll be left without any xorg-server at all until we figure this out, which might not be desirable.

I tried deactivating the outdated version of xorg-server and then installing xorg-server, getting the same error.

$ sudo port -t deactivate xorg-server
Note: It is not recommended to uninstall/deactivate a port that has dependents as it breaks the dependents.
The following ports will break: xorg @20090316_0
Continue? [y/N]: y
Warning: Deactivate forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
--->  Deactivating xorg-server @1.20.4_0
--->  Cleaning xorg-server
$ sudo port -t install xorg-server
--->  Computing dependencies for xorg-server
--->  Fetching archive for xorg-server
Warning: Your DNS servers incorrectly claim to know the address of nonexistent hosts. This may cause checksum mismatches for some ports. See this page for more information: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers>
--->  Attempting to fetch xorg-server-1.20.5_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/xorg-server
--->  Attempting to fetch xorg-server-1.20.5_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from https://packages.macports.org/xorg-server
--->  Installing xorg-server @1.20.5_0
Error: Registry error: mkfontdir not registered as installed & active.
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_macports-git_macports-ports_x11_xorg-server/xorg-server/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port xorg-server failed

I'm not attaching the new main.log since it is essentially the same as the previous one.

Any ideas?

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

Any news on this? I get the same error also on another machine.

[kencu (Ken)]

xorg-server upgrades on all machines now all these years later -- if this is still a problem please reopen or open a new ticket with fresh info