'port -f clean --all all' aborts with unintelligible error

[istlota@…]

I run 'port -f clean --all all' about once a week as part of my regular routine maintenance tasks. When I ran it today, it aborted after the cleaning drush msg:

--->  Cleaning druntime
--->  Cleaning drupal5
--->  Cleaning drupal6
--->  Cleaning drupal7
--->  Cleaning drush
Error: Unable to open port: invalid command name "}|̂}|͹oH͹oVcc¤´­p"

I tried twice and got the same unintelligible error each time. Running port rev-upgrade reports no broken files found.

[istlota@…]

scrollback buffer from terminal session

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

I don’t see anything wrong with the portfile. Perhaps yours has been corrupted somehow. Try this:

% sudo rm $(port file drush)
% sudo port selfupdate
% sudo port clean --all all

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

According to the output, drush was successfully cleaned; it would be the port after drush: drwright. Does the problem always happen at the same port? Are the flags -f and --all necessary to reproduce the problem? Does just sudo port clean drwright produce the same error?

[istlota@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

According to the output, drush was successfully cleaned; it would be the port after drush: drwright. Does the problem always happen at the same port? Are the flags -f and --all necessary to reproduce the problem? Does just sudo port clean drwright produce the same error?

Thanks. 'sudo port clean drwright' fixed the problem. For future reference, where can I find a list of ports in the order that 'port clean' cleans them?

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to istlota@…:

For future reference, where can I find a list of ports in the order that 'port clean' cleans them?

% port echo all

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

MacPorts cleans ports in the order you specify; since you specified the pseudoport "all", that's the order it'll use.