[Slashcode-general] slashd hangs while running freshenup.pl after new story

[Marc M. <mwm...@ro...>]

I'm using 2.2.6 and have seen this issue on Slashcode but never saw a 
fix.  I had my site running reasonably well but this issue just came up 
on it's own.  Basically a story is added and the next time freshenup.pl 
runs, slashd hangs and never prints to the log again.

Here's a chunk from freshenup.pl.  It gets to 'Got to here 1' but not 
the second marker.  I'm going to work on debugging this but thought I'd 
ask first to see if anyone else has seen it.

my $w  = $slashdb->getVar('writestatus', 'value');
        slashdLog("Got here 1");
        if ($updates{$constants->{defaultsection}} ne "" || $w ne "ok") {
                $slashdb->setVar("writestatus", "ok");
                prog2file(
                        "$constants->{basedir}/index.pl",
                        "$vu ssi=yes",
                        "$constants->{basedir}/index.shtml",
                        verbosity()
                );
        }
        slashdLog("Got here 2");