Re: [Bug-tar] bug in gtar 1.13.25 with deep directory structure

[Joerg Schilling]

"Josef G. Bauer" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a colleague of mine hat this deep directory Structure:

> This mess was possible created by KDE.
>
> An archive was created using 'rm NAME.snar; tar -C ROOT -g NAME.snar
> -czf NAME.tgz'. 'wanderfalke' is a sub directory of ROOT.
>
> When trying to extract the achieve tar 1.13.25 stops with no error
> message extracting after encountering this directory structure making
> the rest of the achieve not accessible.
>
> tar 1.15.1 gives the message 'tar: A lone zero block at 172142' but
> stops extracting, too. Using the '-i' option the extraction is not
> stopped but I am not sure whether the result is 100% correct. The
> message 'tar: Skipping to next header' is given twice.

Try star -tv < archive

star should print a useful error message

Jörg

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