Bug#504118: sbcl: install fails through apt-get but succeeds otherwise

[meingbg]

Package: sbcl
Version: 1:0.9.16.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: no longer builds from source

#apt-get install sbcl

....
.... [loading a thousand packages...]
....

; #<PACKAGE "ASDF1011">
; loading system definition from /usr/lib/sbcl/sb-grovel/sb-grovel.asd into
; #<PACKAGE "ASDF1012">
; loading system definition from /usr/lib/sbcl/sb-grovel/sb-grovel.asd into
; #<PACKAGE "ASDF1013">
; loading system definition from /usr/lib/sbcl/sb-grovel/sb-grovel.asd into
; #<PACKAGE "ASDF1014">
;
; compilation unit aborted
;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition

Error running init-common-lisp-controller-v4: error opening #P"/usr/lib/sbcl/sb-grovel/sb-grovel.asd":
                                                Too many open files
mv: cannot stat `sbcl-new.core': No such file or directory
FAILED

-- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages sbcl depends on:
ii  common-lisp-controller 6.9               This is a Common Lisp source and c
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

Versions of packages sbcl recommends:
pn  binfmt-support                <none>     (no description available)