transmission fails to install

[andrewroth@…]

Trying to install transmission bittorrent client, I get this error:

--(/Users/andrewroth/Documents)-----(andrewroth@andrew-roths-macbook-pro:s001)--
--(18:34)-- $ sudo port install transmission
Password:
--->  Fetching transmission
--->  Attempting to fetch transmission-1.06.tar.bz2 from http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for transmission
--->  Extracting transmission
--->  Configuring transmission
--->  Building transmission
--->  Staging transmission into destroot
--->  Installing transmission 1.06_0
--->  Activating transmission 1.06_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: transmission @1.06_0 not installed as an image.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

try again..

--(/Users/andrewroth/Documents)-----(andrewroth@andrew-roths-macbook-pro:s001)--
--(18:59)-- $ sudo port install transmission
--->  Activating transmission 1.06_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: transmission @1.06_0 not installed as an image.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
--(/Users/andrewroth/Documents)-----(andrewroth@andrew-roths-macbook-pro:s001)--
--(19:00)-- $ 

[andrewroth@…]

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Trying to install transmission bittorrent client, I get this error:

--(/Users/andrewroth/Documents)-----(andrewroth@andrew-roths-macbook-pro:s001)--
--(18:34)-- $ sudo port install transmission
Password:
--->  Fetching transmission
--->  Attempting to fetch transmission-1.06.tar.bz2 from http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for transmission
--->  Extracting transmission
--->  Configuring transmission
--->  Building transmission
--->  Staging transmission into destroot
--->  Installing transmission 1.06_0
--->  Activating transmission 1.06_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: transmission @1.06_0 not installed as an image.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

This looks a lot like registry corruption. What MacPorts version are you using? Do you have portinstalltype image set in your macports.conf? Have you used portinstalltype direct in the past?

[andrewroth@…]

I don't know about portinstalltype, I haven't touched macports.conf. This is a fresh macport install on a fresh OS X install, I installed maybe one or two programs through it before this. What should I do to fix it?

[andrewroth@…]

It seems to be something with transmission (either inherently transmission, or something else went wrong; either way, it seems to not affect other installs, as I was able to install synergy.

--(/Users/andrewroth/Documents)-----(andrewroth@andrew-roths-macbook-pro:s000)--
--(16:43)-- $ sudo port install synergy
Password:
--->  Fetching synergy
--->  Attempting to fetch synergy-1.3.1.tar.gz from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/synergy2
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for synergy
--->  Extracting synergy
--->  Applying patches to synergy
--->  Configuring synergy
--->  Building synergy with target all
--->  Staging synergy into destroot
--->  Installing synergy 1.3.1_0
--->  Activating synergy 1.3.1_0
--->  Cleaning synergy