My attempts to sync or selfupdate currently hang: % sudo port -d -v sync Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done www/mod_perl2/ deleting www/mod_perl2/work sent 77 bytes received 216774 bytes 25511.88 bytes/sec total size is 13508955 speedup is 62.30 ....(hangs) Curiously, I see these two rsync commands in the process list, which persist indefinitely until I ctrl-c out of the port command: root 20368 0.0 0.1 28364 1248 p1 S+ 11:17AM 0:00.32 /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after --delete rsync:// rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports/ /opt/local/var/db/dports/ sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports root 20369 0.0 0.1 28364 1092 p1 S+ 11:17AM 0:00.73 /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after --delete rsync:// rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports/ /opt/local/var/db/dports/ sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports I verified that there is only one running invocation of port sync. I tried running the rsync command myself with a separate destination directory. It downloads the ports fine and terminates normally. It just seems to hang when run from within the port sync command. Running selfupdate results in the same two rsync processes appearing and the consequent hanging of the port command: % sudo port -d -v selfupdate DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done sent 77 bytes received 216774 bytes 33361.69 bytes/sec total size is 13508955 speedup is 62.30 ....(hangs) Steve