portversion runs seemingly forever

[Gunter Wambaugh]

When I try
$ portversion -L =

it seems to run forever.

top yields
   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
51331 root      51   0 19276K 18852K RUN      0:09 90.60% 32.86% ruby18

I have tried portsdb -uU && pkgdb -uv, to no avail.

bash-2.05b# uname -a
FreeBSD test.thewambaughs.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon 
Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003     
root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Any ideas?