"port upgrade outdated" causes high notifyd/bash CPU usage and does nothing

[trojanfoe@…]

I have been happily using macports for a couple of months now but I am currently unable to perform an upgrade. When I issue "port upgrade outdated" it sits there doing nothing, but causes high CPU usage of notifyd and bash:

Processes: 59 total, 3 running, 56 sleeping, 273 threads               23:31:29
Load Avg: 1.30, 1.25, 1.15  CPU usage: 23.7% user, 5.28% sys, 71.63% idle
SharedLibs: 7936K resident, 10M data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 9360 total, 632M resident, 17M private, 342M shared.
PhysMem: 660M wired, 871M active, 304M inactive, 1835M used, 2131M free.
VM: 135G vsize, 1042M framework vsize, 1169118(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 25965/11M in, 11761/1901K out.
Disks: 1643810/14G read, 130267/8236M written.

PID    COMMAND      %CPU      TIME     #TH  #WQ  #POR #MREG RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE
11     notifyd      82.5      19:36.43 2/1  0    106  116   85M+   244K   85M+
9994   bash         8.9       04:15.60 1    0    17   24    180K   856K   704K  
3835   top          3.6       00:58.07 1/1  0    30   33    1184K  244K   1760K 
103    launchd      1.5       00:46.80 2    0    196  63    696K   492K   1100K
0      kernel_task  1.4       05:31.58 73/4 0    2    598   26M    0B     184M  

My system: MBP i5 (2.53GHz), Mac OS 10.6.6 (64-bit kernel).

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

There's not a lot we can do about this unless you either give us a way to reproduce the problem or supply more information. Debug output from port would be a good start.

[trojanfoe@…]

Here is the output when running with the '-d' option. It's stuck on the last line.

Additional behaviour to report; after terminating 'port' with Ctrl-C the notifyd stays active at 100% and bash disappears.

bash-3.2# port -d upgrade outdated
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: sqlite3 3.7.5_0 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: sqlite3 3.7.3_0  is the latest installed
DEBUG: sqlite3 3.7.3_0  is active
DEBUG: Merging existing variants '' into variants
DEBUG: new fully merged portvariants: 
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/databases/sqlite3
DEBUG: OS darwin/10.6.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
DEBUG: org.macports.load registered provides 'load', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.unload registered provides 'unload', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.distfiles registered provides 'distfiles', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: readline 6.1.002_0 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: readline 6.1.002_0  is the latest installed
DEBUG: readline 6.1.002_0  is active
DEBUG: Merging existing variants '' into variants
DEBUG: new fully merged portvariants: 
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/readline
DEBUG: OS darwin/10.6.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
DEBUG: org.macports.load registered provides 'load', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.unload registered provides 'unload', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.distfiles registered provides 'distfiles', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: Using group file /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/muniversal-1.0.tcl
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: universal variant already exists, so not adding the default one
DEBUG: No need to upgrade! readline 6.1.002_0 >= readline 6.1.002_0
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: ncurses 5.7_1 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: ncurses 5.7_1  is the latest installed
DEBUG: ncurses 5.7_1  is active
DEBUG: Merging existing variants '' into variants
DEBUG: new fully merged portvariants: 
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/ncurses
DEBUG: OS darwin/10.6.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
DEBUG: org.macports.load registered provides 'load', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.unload registered provides 'unload', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.distfiles registered provides 'distfiles', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: No need to upgrade! ncurses 5.7_1 >= ncurses 5.7_1
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: ncursesw 5.7_1 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: ncursesw 5.7_1  is the latest installed
DEBUG: ncursesw 5.7_1  is active
DEBUG: Merging existing variants '' into variants
DEBUG: new fully merged portvariants: 
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/ncursesw
DEBUG: OS darwin/10.6.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
DEBUG: org.macports.load registered provides 'load', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.unload registered provides 'unload', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.distfiles registered provides 'distfiles', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: No need to upgrade! ncursesw 5.7_1 >= ncursesw 5.7_1
DEBUG: Starting logging for sqlite3

[trojanfoe@…]

Cc Me!

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

And is there a log file for sqlite3?

[trojanfoe@…]

Is there? You tell me where and I'll post it.

[trojanfoe@…]

I have fixed this, so this ticket can be closed.