Re: BUG? Socket troubles: Too many open files.

[Richard Miles <richard.k.miles () googlemail com>]

Hi nmap masters :)

Any follow-up on this? Do you need any additional information from me?

Thanks.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Richard Miles <
richard.k.miles () googlemail com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I was looking at archive and it's not the first time that a similar
> problem was reported (http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/973), at least
> I think it's similar, but the patch doesn't appear to solve the issue
> properly.
>
> I download nmap from svn a few days ago, my version is Nmap 6.02.
>
> I'm using the following command nmap -sT -n -sV -O --script "(auth or
> brute or exploit or intrusive or vuln) and not (smb-brute or ldap-brute)"
> -iL HOSTS.txt -oN Results-HOSTS.txt
>
> And I get the following error:
>
> false   MSRPC call returned a fault (packet type)
> false   MSRPC call returned a fault (packet type)
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> nmap: nsock_core.c:1187: nsp_add_event: Assertion `nse->iod->sd >= 0'
> failed.
> Aborted
>
> There is a workaround? Is it a well-known bug?
>
> Thanks.
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