how to break portsnap

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:56:37 -0700
"Steve Franks" <stevefranks at ieee.org> wrote:

> I've googled high & low but I cannot find much other that "this cannot
> happen" replies.  I've got a dual boot to amd64 and i386.  The amd64
> hasn't been able to portsnap fetch or cron since march.  The i386 I
> just installed, and it portsnap's fine, so it's not a firewall or
> related issue.  I've checked my key and it looks ok.  What am I
> missing?
> 
>...
> Fetching 13708 new ports or files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open
> e53d7ea3f6fbc2e6a87a1f194ea623fc6b27c74d9aecfd61e0d765e86d861ad5.gz:
> No such file or directory
> snapshot is corrupt.

It's pretty self-explanatory, the snapshot is corrupt.

delete /var/db/portsnap/* and then start-again by do a "fetch" and
"extract".