portsnap Generating a "Bad file descriptor" Error Message

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a "Bad
> file descriptor" message when trying using it on one of my i386 machine:
>
> Looking up portsnap5.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.freebsd.org... done.
> Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> Fetching snapshot generated at Mon Sep  3 20:04:44 EDT 2012:
> 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb949  0% of   67 MB    0  Bps
> fetch:
> http://portsnap5.freebsd.org/s/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz:
> Bad file descriptor
> fetch:
> 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz: Bad
> file descriptor
>
> I tried fsck -y the /var, /tmp and /usr partitions and everything seems
> fine. What could the problem be?
>
> Thanks!
>

Hi,

Anyone has an idea about what could be causing this problem?

Thank you!