Opened 16 months ago

Closed 16 months ago

Last modified 16 months ago

#68010 closed defect (duplicate)

activation failed with trace mode

Reported by: ThoAppelsin (Utkan Gezer) Owned by:
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 2.8.1
Keywords: ventura Cc: drkp (Dan Ports)
Port:

Description

I was hoping to install texlive -doc -medium +full (@2023) and psutils (@p17_1) being a part of it fails to install. To give it a try, and also to keep the main.log simple, I tried installing psutils (@p17_1) individually, and it also fails with the following message:

Error: Failed to activate psutils: command execution failed
    while executing
"system $cmdstring"

P.S.: psutils appears to have no maintainer.

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Change History (4)

Changed 16 months ago by ThoAppelsin (Utkan Gezer)

Attachment: main.log added

main.log

comment:1 Changed 16 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

The log says:

:msg:activate --->  Activating psutils @p17_1
:debug:activate Using bsdtar with HFS+ compression (if valid)
:debug:activate Using /usr/bin/bzip2
:debug:activate system: /usr/bin/bzip2 -d -c /opt/local/var/macports/software/psutils/psutils-p17_1.darwin_22.arm64.tbz2 | ( bsdtar -xvp --hfsCompression -f - )
:info:activate Command failed: /usr/bin/bzip2 -d -c /opt/local/var/macports/software/psutils/psutils-p17_1.darwin_22.arm64.tbz2 | ( bsdtar -xvp --hfsCompression -f - )
:info:activate Killed by signal: 9

So why did bzip2 and/or bsdtar get killed? Did you use trace mode (the -t flag)? If so, trace mode is broken on macOS 13 and later so you'll have to forgo trace mode.

comment:2 Changed 16 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Component: portsbase
Keywords: ventura added; activate failed executing removed
Port: texlive psutils removed
Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed
Summary: psutils @p17_1: activate error, failed while executing "system $cmdstring"activation failed with trace mode

Ah, the log also says you are using trace mode:

:debug:activate Tracelib Sandbox is:
:debug:activate Tracemode will respect recursively collected port dependencies:

So that confirms it. Duplicate of #66358.

comment:3 Changed 16 months ago by ThoAppelsin (Utkan Gezer)

Oh, wow, thank you! (Still having some issues, but those would be a topic for another ticket if they persist, and...) I have now passed that part of the installation.

It might be worthwhile to put a warning/note right where the -t flag is recommended, here (MacPorts Guide, section 3.1.11 `port install`), as the last resort before filing such tickets.

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