Failed to verify signature for MacPorts source!

[matthew.s.whalley.civ@…]

I've read through the past tickets trying to solve this problem without any luck. Any help would be appreciated.

af-arp-mac:~ arp$ sudo port -df selfupdate
DEBUG: Copying /Users/arp/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences
DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 69 bytes  70.00 bytes/sec
total size is 27013120  speedup is 257267.81
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 76 bytes  44.80 bytes/sec
total size is 512  speedup is 4.57
DEBUG: failed verification with key /opt/local/share/macports/macports-pubkey.pem
DEBUG: openssl output: child killed: segmentation violation
DEBUG: Failed to verify signature for MacPorts source!
    while executing
"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated"
Error: Failed to verify signature for MacPorts source!
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Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Failed to verify signature for MacPorts source!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

"segmentation violation" sounds like another word for "segmentation fault", in other words it sounds like openssl crashed. Any idea why? Did a crash log get written to ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports? Does openssl work if you try to use it on the command line?

[matthew.s.whalley.civ@…]

I didn't get a crash log. OpenSSL seems to run OK from the command line. The reported version is 1.0.2c --

af-arp-mac:~ arp$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2c 12 Jun 2015
af-arp-mac:~ arp$ which openssl
/opt/local/bin/openssl

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm not sure whether MacPorts would use the openssl you installed with MacPorts. Usually, it would use the one included with OS X. Can you test that one by running "/usr/bin/openssl version"?

[matthew.s.whalley.civ@…]

I get --

af-arp-mac:~ arp$ /usr/bin/openssl version
Illegal instruction: 4

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, then that's what you'll have to fix. You could check again if a crash report was created this time. If so, it might shed light on what specifically the problem is. If not, I could take some guesses: /usr/bin/openssl might have been corrupted somehow, or might have been replaced with something else by some third-party installer you ran. Or maybe it wasn't /usr/bin/openssl but rather one of the libraries it uses, /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib or /usr/lib/libssl.0.9.8.dylib. Try restoring any or all of those files from your backups, or reinstalling OS X.

[matthew.s.whalley.civ@…]

Restoring openssl from backup worked. Thanks for the help!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Great, glad you got it working. Hopefully none of your other system libraries were overwritten by something...