portsdb -Uu hung

[David Abrahams]

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> 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?

It eventually finished after seeming to make no progress and not
showing up in "top" for the longest time.  Sorry for the false (?)
alarm.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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