r238860: bsdtar: eating up 100% CPU, hanging

[Tim Kientzle]

On Jul 28, 2012, at 10:21 AM, O. Hartmann wrote:

> When updating ports (like databases/sqlite3 or graphics/png via portmaster graphics/png), the installation process comes to a point where a backup of the old port is created with bsdtar. The process hangs then …

> My operating system is
> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r238860: Sat Jul 28 11:28:38 CEST 2012

That's newer than my -CURRENT system here; I'm updating now.
Martin imported a few changes from upstream just recently, so this
is likely a new problem.

> What to do?

Can you get the full command line for the command that's
hanging?

$ ps auxww | grep tar

Knowing the exact options that were used will help narrow
it down.

Thanks for reporting it,

Tim