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SBOPKG errors viewing obsolete source cache

So I'm doing a bit of housekeeping and tidying up of programs I no longer need/use, and as some of these were installed using sbopkg I thought I would also tidy those. However when attempting to view obsolete sources via the utilities sub-menu, sbopkg seems to crash to a cli interface from the ncurses one and spews continuously the error below.
This thern continues until I CTRL+C the process which of course then leaves the sbopkg pid file still showing active in /var/run. Anyone else come across this, and a possible way to prevent it.

Quote:

/usr/sbin/sbopkg: cannot make pipe for command substitution: Too many open files
stty: standard input: Bad file descriptor
/usr/sbin/sbopkg: line 569: read: read error: 0: Bad file descriptor
stty: standard input: Bad file descriptor
/usr/sbin/sbopkg: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Too many open files

TIA

This appears to be a bug in bash 4.1 as it doesn't happen in 3.1 or 4.0. Keep in mind that using SBo and sbopkg on -current is unsupported. Nevertheless, r768 from March 6th should have fixed this. Can you try the latest subversion revision and see if it still occurs?