Major compaction IOException in 1.1.8

Upgraded 1.1.6 to 1.1.8.

Now I'm trying to do a major compaction, and seeing this:

ERROR [CompactionExecutor:129] 2012-12-22 10:33:44,217 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 135) Exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor:129,1,RMI Runtime]
java.io.IOError: java.io.IOException: Bad file descriptor
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.MergeIterator.close(MergeIterator.java:65)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.execute(CompactionTask.java:195)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$7.runMayThrow(CompactionManager.java:298)
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:30)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Bad file descriptor
at sun.nio.ch.FileDispatcher.preClose0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.FileDispatcher.preClose(FileDispatcher.java:59)
at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.implCloseChannel(FileChannelImpl.java:96)
at java.nio.channels.spi.AbstractInterruptibleChannel.close(AbstractInterruptibleChannel.java:97)
at java.io.FileInputStream.close(FileInputStream.java:258)
at org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.CompressedRandomAccessReader.close(CompressedRandomAccessReader.java:131)
at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.implCloseChannel(FileChannelImpl.java:121)
at java.nio.channels.spi.AbstractInterruptibleChannel.close(AbstractInterruptibleChannel.java:97)
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.close(RandomAccessFile.java:541)
at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.RandomAccessReader.close(RandomAccessReader.java:224)
at org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.CompressedRandomAccessReader.close(CompressedRandomAccessReader.java:130)
at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableScanner.close(SSTableScanner.java:89)
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.MergeIterator.close(MergeIterator.java:61)
... 9 more