portsdb -Uu hung

[Lowell Gilbert]

David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:

> I seem to be having the same problem described in
> http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22211, with no
> system calls shown by truss.

My instinct is that it's unlikely to be related, even if the symptoms
look similar.

> Unfortunately, the fix of upgrading perl from 5.6 to 5.8 doesn't apply
> to me: my version of Perl is already at 5.8.8, and probably was from
> the moment FreeBSD was installed. I'm relatively new
> at all this.  Can someone help me set things right again?

It's only happening with "-a"?
Will it upgrade individual ports okay?
Does it suck up CPU while it's hung?
Have you upgraded portupgrade to 2.2.2?