Unable to install anything because /usr/bin/bzip2 is empty

[wilburg@…]

My machine is a 2007 MacMini with a 1.66 GHx Intel Core Duo running OS-X 10.6.8. I have done a clean install of XCode 3.2.6 and MacPorts 2.0.1. I have been totally unable to get anything to install with MacPorts. For example, the command:

"sudo port install ncftp" yields the following:

sh-3.2# sudo port install ncftp
--->  Computing dependencies for ncftp
--->  Dependencies to be installed: ncurses ncursesw
--->  Activating ncursesw @5.8_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: Source file /tmp/mpextractOFTEgmPa/opt/local/share/doc/ncursesw/README.txt does not appear to exist (cannot lstat it).  Unable to activate port ncursesw.
Error: Failed to install ncursesw
Log for ncursesw is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ncurses ncursesw
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please remember to use WikiFormatting and to preview before submitting. As reporter you do not need to Cc yourself.

Have you tried cleaning and trying again? For example:

sudo port clean ncursesw
sudo port install ncursesw

[wilburg@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Am actually starting with no ports installed.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Not according to the output you posted. Uninstall and clean ncursesw, try again, and then attach the complete log.

[wilburg@…]

After I installed XCode and macports I attempted an install of ncftp, with failure at installing ncursesw. When that failed, I tried another install and the screen I sent you was from that attempt.

Here's the output from another attempt, preceded by uninstall/clean of any remnants of ncursesw:

mini,:~ wilbur$ sudo port
MacPorts 2.0.1
Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
[Users/wilbur] > uninstall ncurses
[Users/wilbur] > clean ncurses
--->  Cleaning ncurses
[Users/wilbur] > uninstall ncursesw
--->  Uninstalling ncursesw @5.8_0
--->  Cleaning ncursesw
[Users/wilbur] > uninstall ncftp
[Users/wilbur] > install ncftp
--->  Computing dependencies for ncftp
--->  Dependencies to be installed: ncurses ncursesw
--->  Installing ncursesw @5.8_0
Error: Target org.macports.install returned: no destroot found at: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/work/destroot
Error: Failed to install ncursesw
Log for ncursesw is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ncurses ncursesw
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

And, now here is the log file:

version:1
:debug:clean changing euid/egid - current euid: 0 - current egid: 0
:debug:clean egid changed to: 502
:debug:clean euid changed to: 507
:debug:main Executing org.macports.main (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.archivefetch (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.fetch (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.checksum (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.extract (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.patch (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.configure (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.build (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.destroot (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:install install phase started at Fri Aug 12 20:37:43 MDT 2011
:notice:install --->  Installing ncursesw @5.8_0
:debug:install Can't run install on this port without elevated privileges. Escalating privileges back to root.
:debug:install euid changed to: 0. egid changed to: 0.
:debug:install Executing org.macports.install (ncursesw)
:debug:install Using /usr/bin/tar
:debug:install Using /usr/bin/bzip2
:error:install Target org.macports.install returned: no destroot found at: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/work/destroot
:debug:install Backtrace: no destroot found at: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/work/destroot
    while executing
"create_archive $location $portarchivetype"
    (procedure "portinstall::install_main" line 15)
    invoked from within
"$procedure $targetname"
:info:install Warning: the following items did not execute (for ncursesw): org.macports.activate org.macports.install
:error:install Failed to install ncursesw
:notice:install Log for ncursesw is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/main.log

I have successfully installed XCode and macports on a Lion machine and am able to install everything I need on that machine without issue.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It doesn't look like you actually cleaned ncursesw.

[wilburg@…]

Here is the first four lines of the first code block of my last submission:

[Users/wilbur] > uninstall ncurses
[Users/wilbur] > clean ncurses
--->  Cleaning ncurses
[Users/wilbur] > uninstall ncursesw
--->  Uninstalling ncursesw @5.8_0
--->  Cleaning ncursesw

Notice that they show that I uninstalled and cleaned nurses, and then uninsalled ncursesw which reported that both uninstall and clean of that port took place.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

There are different types of clean. Please actually run sudo port clean ncursesw to do the type of clean that's needed in this case.

[wilburg@…]

I have already done a manual clean as well, with the same results, but here is the same result with the results of your instructions shown:

First the terminal window output:

mini,:~ wilbur$ sudo port uninstall ncursesw
mini,:~ wilbur$ sudo port clean ncursesw
--->  Cleaning ncursesw
mini,:~ wilbur$ sudo port uninstall ncurses
mini,:~ wilbur$ sudo port uninstall ncurses
mini,:~ wilbur$ sudo port clean ncurses
--->  Cleaning ncurses
mini,:~ wilbur$ sudo port install ncftp
--->  Computing dependencies for ncftp
--->  Dependencies to be installed: ncurses ncursesw
--->  Fetching archive for ncursesw
--->  Attempting to fetch ncursesw-5.8_0.darwin_10.noarch.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/ncursesw
--->  Attempting to fetch ncursesw-5.8_0.darwin_10.noarch.tbz2.rmd160 from http://packages.macports.org/ncursesw
--->  Installing ncursesw @5.8_0
--->  Activating ncursesw @5.8_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: Source file /tmp/mpextractfeLAdVkC/opt/local/share/doc/ncursesw/README.txt does not appear to exist (cannot lstat it).  Unable to activate port ncursesw.
Error: Failed to install ncursesw
Log for ncursesw is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ncurses ncursesw
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

Next, the log file output:

version:1
:debug:main Attempting ln -sf /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/work /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/devel/ncursesw/work
:debug:main changing euid/egid - current euid: 0 - current egid: 0
:debug:main egid changed to: 502
:debug:main euid changed to: 507
:debug:main Executing org.macports.main (ncursesw)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch archivefetch phase started at Fri Aug 12 23:10:50 MDT 2011
:msg:archivefetch --->  Fetching archive for ncursesw
:debug:archivefetch Executing org.macports.archivefetch (ncursesw)
:debug:archivefetch euid/egid changed to: 0/0
:debug:archivefetch chowned /opt/local/var/macports/software/ncursesw to macports
:debug:archivefetch euid/egid changed to: 507/502
:debug:archivefetch euid/egid changed to: 0/0
:debug:archivefetch chowned /opt/local/var/macports/incoming to macports
:debug:archivefetch euid/egid changed to: 507/502
:info:archivefetch --->  ncursesw-5.8_0.darwin_10.noarch.tbz2 doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/software/ncursesw
:msg:archivefetch --->  Attempting to fetch ncursesw-5.8_0.darwin_10.noarch.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/ncursesw
:msg:archivefetch --->  Attempting to fetch ncursesw-5.8_0.darwin_10.noarch.tbz2.rmd160 from http://packages.macports.org/ncursesw
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.fetch (ncursesw)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.checksum (ncursesw)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.extract (ncursesw)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.patch (ncursesw)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.configure (ncursesw)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.build (ncursesw)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:archivefetch Skipping completed org.macports.destroot (ncursesw)
:debug:archivefetch Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:install install phase started at Fri Aug 12 23:10:52 MDT 2011
:notice:install --->  Installing ncursesw @5.8_0
:debug:install Can't run install on this port without elevated privileges. Escalating privileges back to root.
:debug:install euid changed to: 0. egid changed to: 0.
:debug:install Executing org.macports.install (ncursesw)
:debug:activate activate phase started at Fri Aug 12 23:10:53 MDT 2011
:debug:activate Executing org.macports.activate (ncursesw)
:msg:activate --->  Activating ncursesw @5.8_0
:debug:activate Using /usr/bin/tar
:debug:activate Using /usr/bin/bzip2
:error:activate Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: Source file /tmp/mpextractfeLAdVkC/opt/local/share/doc/ncursesw/README.txt does not appear to exist (cannot lstat it).  Unable to activate port ncursesw.
:debug:activate Backtrace: Image error: Source file /tmp/mpextractfeLAdVkC/opt/local/share/doc/ncursesw/README.txt does not appear to exist (cannot lstat it).  Unable to activate port ncursesw.
    invoked from within
"throw registry::image-error "Image error: Source file $srcfile does not appear to exist (cannot lstat it).  Unable to activate port [$port name].""
    ("foreach" body line 8)
    invoked from within
"foreach file $imagefiles {
                set srcfile "${extracted_dir}${file}"

                # To be able to install links, we test if we can lst..."
    invoked from within
"registry::write {
            foreach file $imagefiles {
                set srcfile "${extracted_dir}${file}"

                # To be able to instal..."
    invoked from within
"try {
        registry::write {
            foreach file $imagefiles {
                set srcfile "${extracted_dir}${file}"

                # To be ..."
    (procedure "_activate_contents" line 21)
    invoked from within
"_activate_contents $requested"
    (procedure "portimage::activate" line 57)
    invoked from within
"registry_activate $subport $version $revision $portvariants [array get user_options]"
    (procedure "portactivate::activate_main" line 4)
    invoked from within
"$procedure $targetname"
:info:activate Warning: the following items did not execute (for ncursesw): org.macports.activate
:error:activate Failed to install ncursesw
:notice:activate Log for ncursesw is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/main.log

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, I see. Do /usr/bin/tar and /usr/bin/bzip2 function normally when used separately?

[wilburg@…]

bzip2 is a zero length file, as are many of the files in /usr/bin. WTF?? I'm getting ready to reinstall the OS from scratch.

Just for grins, here's a list of those files in case you run into this again:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:32 2to3
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 alias
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 bg
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:32 bunzip2
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:32 bzcat
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:32 bzip2old
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 c2ph
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 cal
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 cd
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 command
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 compress
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 corelist
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 cpan
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 cpan2dist
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 cpanp
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 cpanp-run-perl
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 crc32
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 dbilogstrip
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 dbiprof
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 dbiproxy
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 dprofpp
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 easy_install
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 egrep
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 enc2xs
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 fc
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 fg
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 fgrep
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 find2perl
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 getopts
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 gluedialect
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 gluedoc
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 glueedit
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 gluemac
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 gluescriptadds
-r-xr-xr-x   3 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 groups
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 gzip
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 h2ph
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 h2xs
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 hash
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 hexdump
-r-xr-xr-x   3 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 id
-rwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 idle
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 instmodsh
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 ipcount
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 iptab
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 jobs
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 libnetcfg
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 lwp-download
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 lwp-mirror
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 lwp-request
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 lwp-rget
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 macerror
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 mail
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 mailx
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 man
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 more
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 ncal
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 od
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 perlbug
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 perlcc
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 perldoc
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 perlivp
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 perlthanks
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 piconv
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pl2pm
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pod2html
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pod2latex
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pod2man
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pod2readme
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pod2text
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pod2usage
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 podchecker
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 podselect
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 psed
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pstruct
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 ptar
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 ptardiff
-rwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pydoc
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 python
-rwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 python-config
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 pythonw
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 read
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 s2p
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 shasum
-rwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 smtpd.py
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 spfd
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 spfquery
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 splain
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 type
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 ulimit
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 umask
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 unalias
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 uncompress
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 unzip
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 uptime
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 w
-r-xr-xr-x  15 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 wait
-r-xr-xr-x   3 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 whoami
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 wxperl_demo.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 wxperl_overload
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 wxperl_xspp
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 xattr
-r-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 xcman
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 xgettext.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  24 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 xpath
-rwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 xsubpp
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 zcat
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel           0 Mar 30 18:33 zipinfo

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to wilburg@…:

bzip2 is a zero length file, as are many of the files in /usr/bin. WTF??

That would be a problem! :)

I'm getting ready to reinstall the OS from scratch.

Good idea.

[wilburg@…]

Did a backup, and reformatted the HD.

Installed Snow Leopard on the blank disk.

Installed Xcode 3.2.6 and MacPorts 2.0.1

Migrated user accounts and applications from backup.

Everything works!

Thanks for help.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Glad you got it working.