trouble installing from ports

If the error is exactly the same as before, there is something basic wrong that just is not evident to me. At this point, reinstalling may be the quickest way to get around that. Don't edit any files except /etc/rc.conf and maybe /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, and don't use any special characters in names.
 
Resolution of Problem and Thanks

FreeBSD forum and wblock@,

Thank you for the patience in trying to figure out what was giving me the inordinate amount of difficulty with installation of ports.

As you suggested, wblock@, I reinstalled FreeBSD_9.1 for AMD 64 on my toshiba satellite L770.
That worked.

Then the first port I installed was portupgrade since it had a dependency on Perl5.14 which was giving us so much trouble. It installed with no problem.

Then I went on to install the meta port xorg. Except with one error in install where it could not find dmidecode-2.11 it installed without a problem. The absence of dmidecode-2.11 was resolved by simply retyping make, then make install in the /usr/ports/x11/xorg directory. Both ports, portupgrade and xorg were installed by explicitly going to their corresponding /usr/ports directory and typing in # make, then # make install, and then # make clean.

Two of the previous, possible problems were:
1) had an " ' " in the hostname
2) attempte to do a minimal install of a desktop and used portmaster to manage ports. Either something inherent in portmaster or my great ignorance in managing ports could have introduced the error.

Once again thanks to all.:)
 
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