teTeX-3.0_6 Activation error - "fmtutil-sys --all" returned error

[panayotis@…]

In the activation phase of teTex, fmtutil-sys --all is executed. This fails with error

Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: shell command "fmtutil-sys --all" returned error 1
Command output: No pages of output.
Transcript written on mptopdf.log.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/aleph.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/etex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/lambda.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/lamed.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/latex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/mptopdf.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/omega.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdflatex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/tex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/metafun.mem installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/mpost.mem installed.
fmtutil: /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c/mf.base installed.

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fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /opt/local/share/texmf-var/web2c
for details.
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This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
`pdfetex -ini  -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' possibly failed.
`pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' possibly failed.
`omega -ini  -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' possibly failed.
`aleph -ini  -jobname=lamed -progname=lamed *lambda.ini' possibly failed.

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Attached the mptopdf.log file PS: even with this error, latex seems to work rather fine