expat @2.1.0 fetch failed

[chirok.han@…]

Fetch always fails. It successfully does selfupdate. But when I try installing any package, I get "fetch failure". "sudo port -v fetch expat" gives:

$ sudo port -v fetch expat
--->  Fetching distfiles for expat
--->  expat-2.1.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/expat
--->  Attempting to fetch expat-2.1.0.tar.gz from http://aarnet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.0
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  1  549k    1  6990    0     0   5695      0  0:01:38  0:00:01  0:01:37  5692
--->  Attempting to fetch expat-2.1.0.tar.gz from http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.0
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0  549k    0  4121    0     0   3747      0  0:02:30  0:00:01  0:02:29  3749
--->  Attempting to fetch expat-2.1.0.tar.gz from http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.0
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0  549k    0  5522    0     0   5892      0  0:01:35 --:--:--  0:01:35  5886
...

And this keeps going on. Those servers have the files, of course, but I get nothing. Fetching any ports such as zlib gives me the same errors. I am not behind firewall. Independent "curl" works with no problems.

main.log after "port install expat" is attached.

Thanks. Any help would be appreciated.

ch

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The log says:

:info:archivefetch --->  expat-2.1.0_0.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified
:msg:archivefetch --->  Attempting to fetch expat-2.1.0_0.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/expat
:debug:archivefetch Fetching archive failed:: Failed writing body (0 != 2736)

So it looks like it's having trouble writing the file into the /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified directory. Are the permissions of that directory correct on your system? Here's what they should look like:

$ ls -ld /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified
drwxr-xr-x  2 macports  wheel  68 Oct 10  2013 /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified

[chirok.han@…]

Thanks for the quick reply. It is slightly different; the group is admin rather than wheel. Could it be the problem? If so, how could I fix it?

$ ls -ld /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified
drwxr-xr-x  2 macports  admin  68 Sep 30 02:17 /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified/

One thing is that whenever I newly install macports and then attempt installing a port, I get this error:

$ sudo port install expat
Error: Unable to execute port: error flushing "file8": disk quota exceeded

But then the next time it at least attempts fetching. I forgot to say that I have a mac mini server running OS X 10.9.5. I've tried both .pkg and installation from source, making no differences.

Thanks.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to chirok.han@…:

Thanks for the quick reply. It is slightly different; the group is admin rather than wheel. Could it be the problem? If so, how could I fix it?

$ ls -ld /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified
drwxr-xr-x  2 macports  admin  68 Sep 30 02:17 /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified/

The group probably doesn't matter. It's staff instead of wheel on another of my systems.

One thing is that whenever I newly install macports and then attempt installing a port, I get this error:

$ sudo port install expat
Error: Unable to execute port: error flushing "file8": disk quota exceeded

But then the next time it at least attempts fetching. I forgot to say that I have a mac mini server running OS X 10.9.5. I've tried both .pkg and installation from source, making no differences.

Then I would strongly suspect a disk quota setting is preventing MacPorts from working. You should be able to edit your quota settings in the OS X Server app.

[chirok.han@…]

Great! I did 'quotaoff /' and it is working now. Thank you so much!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Glad you got it working!