BUG: db4 fails to install

[adoyle@…]

db4

Errorlog below and at ​http://www.eogeo.org/Members/adoyle/ad-snippets/2006-03-01-db4-error

Description: db4 fails to install

This is stopping me from installing other things on a PPC Mac Mini... oddly enough, yesterday I managed to get around this on my Powerbook by downloading the db-4.3.29.tar.gz file from sleepycat, inserting it into the right place in /opt/local/.... and then doing an install db4. But this workaround is failing on my mini.

Here's the screen output (same as at the URL above). I'm doing this as superuser...

eogeo-00001# port uninstall db4 Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port uninstall failed: Registry error: db4 not registered as installed. eogeo-00001# port clean db4 ---> Cleaning db4 eogeo-00001# port install db4 ---> Fetching db4 ---> Attempting to fetch db-4.3.29.tar.gz from ​http://downloads.sleepycat.com/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for db4 Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for db-4.3.29.tar.gz Error: Target com.apple.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Status 1 encountered during processing. eogeo-00001#

[adoyle@…]

I realized I should try the approach of starting over with a clean installation of darwinports.

I did the following:

1. moved /opt to /opt-

2. downloaded the DarwinPorts-1.2-10.4.dmg file and reinstalled it

3. did a "rehash", then a "port install db4"

That works. I'll keep the old opt- around for a while and may try some kind of postmortem to see what may have caused the error in that tree.

Output:

eogeo-00001# port install db4 ---> Fetching db4 ---> Attempting to fetch db-4.3.29.tar.gz from ​http://downloads.sleepycat.com/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for db4 ---> Extracting db4 ---> Configuring db4 ---> Building db4 with target all ---> Staging db4 into destroot ---> Packaging tgz archive for db4 4.3.29_0+darwin_8 ---> Installing db4 4.3.29_0+darwin_8 ---> Activating db4 4.3.29_0+darwin_8 ---> Cleaning db4 eogeo-00001#