From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 15:58:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB37116A526; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:58:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@boost-consulting.com) Received: from boost-consulting.com (boost-consulting.com [72.32.140.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCE443F5C; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:55:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@boost-consulting.com) Received: from pereiro.luannocracy.com.boost-consulting.com (216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com [216.15.125.177]) (authenticated bits=0) by boost-consulting.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kATFtx4V088469 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:56:00 GMT (envelope-from dave@boost-consulting.com) From: David Abrahams To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <87psb85yii.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> <44y7pujox4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:55:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <44y7pujox4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (Lowell Gilbert's message of "Wed\, 29 Nov 2006 09\:41\:27 -0500") Message-ID: <87veky9rim.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sem@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb -Uu hung X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:58:15 -0000 Lowell Gilbert writes: > David Abrahams 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. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com