ports-mgmt/portupgrade: ** Database file locked. Waiting.

[Bryan Drewery]

On 10/5/2012 3:24 AM, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Using pkg(ng) in conjunction with the port ports/mgmt/portupgrade
> results in long waiting cycles when portupgrade is updating the local
> database, it is even on fast boxes sometimes in the range of a minute or
> even two.

You mean ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel right?

> 
> Is this usual or is there something wrong with my setup?
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver
> ---
> 
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 1114
> packages found (-0 +1) . done]
> --->  Cleaning out obsolete shared libraries
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... USING PKGNG
> ** Database file locked. Waiting.

I have not experienced this. Are you running multiple portupgrade tools
at once?

Bryan