System freezes on portsnap fetch update

Ben

Ben

Hi,

I have a server which is running fine so far for long time.

Recently when I run portsnap fetch update the system starts unpacking and suddenly freezes completely. If I press CTRL+C it takes a few seconds and the update stops and the system is fine again.

It's a FreeBSD 8.3 RELEASE with a gmirror Software RAID.

The system itself is idling and has not to handle heavy load.

What can I do to find the reason? I think it's the hardware but no tool told me so up to now.
 
I also had this problem on FreeBSD 9.0:

When running:

[CMD=""]portsnap fetch update[/CMD]

It would hang until I killed it, how ever running:

[CMD=""]portsnap fetch; portsnap update[/CMD]

It worked as it should.

I still don't know what the issue was, but now I just have a habit of using the second command to do it.
 
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