port selfupdate: “macPorts sources: command execution failed”

Question

I am trying to selfupdate my Macports, but I am getting the following message:

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizi         


        

Answer 1

I had this same problem recently, and I forgot to run the command under root. If anyone else is having the problem, be sure to run command as so:

sudo port selfupdate