portsnap question

[Dave]

On Saturday 17 September 2016 17:09:20 Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> > [root at kabini1, /etc, 8:10:30am] 353 % portsnap fetch update
> > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 7 mirrors found.
> > Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> > Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> > Updating from Sat Aug 27 01:19:19 MCDT 2016 to Sat Sep 17 04:21:58 MCDT 
> > 2016.
> > Fetching 5 metadata patches... done.
> > Applying metadata patches... done.
> > Fetching 5 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open 
> > 39ffac906fafd69bfbba7c63d15dccb8ccbc8adaa755a212be13200b41f1d215.gz: No 
> > such file or directory
> > metadata is corrupt.
> 
> Same issue here (11.0-RC2). Must be some sort of race condition or
> something in portspap since second execution of `portsnap fetch update`
> always works flawlessly. IIRC started a month ago or so.
> 
> Doesn't look like there is an open ticket on this so I created one:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212768
> 
Same here on 10.3.  Using cssh to open multiple ssh xterms to 4 boxes and when it happens, it happens on all of them.  Running it again and all is well.  I've seen this occur  or 4 times over the last month or so.