On May 16, 2013, at 2:07 PM, MacPorts <[email protected]> wrote:

> Page "ProblemHotlist" was changed by [email protected]
> Diff URL: 
> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist?action=diff&version=100>
> Revision 100
> Comment: 
> https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2013-May/032604.html
> Changes:
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> Index: ProblemHotlist
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> --- ProblemHotlist (version: 99)
> +++ ProblemHotlist (version: 100)
> @@ -247,3 +247,7 @@
> chmod +x repairfilemap.tcl
> sudo ./repairfilemap.tcl
> }}}
> +
> +== Hanging commands on Mountain Lion == #hangs
> +Mountain Lion made some changes to CoreFoundation, such as the creation of 
> the 
> [http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.html
>  cfprefsd] daemon. This can cause some processes to hang for users who have 
> logged in as root.
> +A patch to solve this issue was committed in r104118 and is available to 
> MacPorts users who are using trunk for their base. It will reach the rest of 
> the MacPorts users once MacPorts 2.2 is released. In the meantime, users 
> experiencing this issue can export `__CFPREFERENCES_AVOID_DAEMON=1` to their 
> shell environment, and then add `__CFPREFERENCES_AVOID_DAEMON` to the 
> environment variables to keep with the `extra_env` option in the user's 
> `macports.conf` file.
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This encourages people to keep using root login shells, which doesn't seem wise 
to me.

vq
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