Re: [Bug-tar] obsolescent base-64 headers

[Mike G]

Hi,

I tried your program and it is bombing out as well. I guess something in
FC 1 or FC 2 hosed my tar files.  :-(

star: Tar file too small (amount: 32 bytes).
star: Unexpected EOF on input.
star: Cannot recover from error - exiting.
star: 439 blocks + 4640 bytes (total of 4500000 bytes = 4394.53k).

Thanks for the suggestion though!

I used bzip2 to recover what it could.  

It split this file into 10 smaller tar files.  Using star on any of them
give this error:
star: Hard EOF on input, first EOF block is missing.
star: 0 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 0 bytes = 0.00k).

gnu tar does the following on the first file: 
system_settings/
system_settings/comcast_inbox.mbx
tar: Read 10095 bytes from rec00001system_settings.tar
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gnu tar on the remaining give this error:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 32 bytes from rec00002system_settings.tar
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Mike

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:21, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Mike G <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a few tar files I created under Fedora Core 1.  I have since
> > upgraded to FC2 (I wiped the hard drive clean and did a fresh install). 
> > All the tar files I created under FC1 won't extract under FC2.
> >
> > I just installed tar-1.14-2 and am still having the same problems.
> >
> > tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> > tar: Read 4223 bytes from latest_backup_save
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> > The tar files were compressed using bzip2 after they were created.  
> 
> Did you try to use star?
> 
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/
> 
>       Jörg