Bad file descriptor problem..

[David Curtis]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:07:45 -0500
Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:

> *Another problem has arised, when downloading Opera, then installing
> it, it tells me this:
> 
> dpkg: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and 
> progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor
> 
> I did google around, and found a few things, but instead of messing
> up my system, I was wondering if anyone else has had this type of
> problem and how did you fix it...
> 
> Thanks for anyone who can help me out on this also...

I came across this a few days ago in Gdebi when trying to install a
standalone .deb. I'm not sure why this is happening, Gdebi installed
all the dependencies from the repos then borked on the non-ubuntu .deb.
It installed fine with 'sudo dpkg -i <package-name.deb>'. 

Dave