Close, its a Macbook Pro with an SSD + HDD :) Thanks for the quick response guys! I'll give your suggestions a try.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Dominik Reichardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 23.09.2011 um 06:29 schrieb Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>: > >> On Sep 22, 2011, at 22:55, Chris Jones wrote: >> >>> Hello. I'm having issues installing Macports. The binary installer >>> says the installation is failing. The log is available here: >>> >>> http://dev.inetpro.org/pastebin/888 >>> >>> Can anyone suggest a fix? >> >> The problem appears to be that your home directory path (/Volumes/Macintosh >> HD/Users/cjones) contains spaces. We don't appear to have anticipated that. >> Usually a home directory would just be e.g. /Users/cjones. You appear to >> have two disks, "Mac System Disk" and "Macintosh HD"; presumably your OS is >> on Mac System Disk but you want your home directory on Macintosh HD. >> >> Despite the error message, MacPorts has been successfully installed; you >> don't need to run the installer again. Because of the problem you do need to >> manually set up your shell though. See the guide: >> >> http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.shell.html >> >> We should fix this in the MacPorts installer. Nevertheless, consider >> changing your setup so that your home directory path does not contain >> spaces, for example rename your disk "Macintosh HD" to "MacintoshHD". I >> suspect there is a fair amount of software out there that will not >> anticipate your home directory path containing spaces > > I could be wrong but that setup sounds as if it is the SSD + hd iMac setup. > If it is more and more people will eventually show up with that. I wonder why > the full path to the home directory is being used and not the short way of ~ > (though I'm sure there is a good reason why ;)). > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > -- Chris Jones, CCIE# 25655 (R&S) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
