Whenever I am in Upgradable packages view and I reload database, the progress bar stops at 89% and Porthole freezes. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Show upgradable packages 2. Reload database or emerge something 3. Actual Results: Porthole freezes. It does not give any errors. Expected Results: Reload database and show upgradable packages. I reported it on Gentoo forums a while ago: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-302285-highlight-porthole.html Suggested temporary solution (switch to All Packages view) does not seem to work for me. When I press upgrade and then NO on the message "Upgrade all your packages in world" it freezes. Also when I go back to "Upgradable packages" view it freezes. It seems that Porthole can not calculate upgradable packages twice. Also I see that "emerge <defunct>" remains in memory (ps -A) after an emerge. Even after emerge -p.
This problem seems to be disappeared with latest upgrade of Python.