Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.28] testsuite: 128 failed

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Wednesday 02 of December 2015 08:15:41 Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 of December 2015 01:04:37 Budi Setiawan wrote:
> > plz check
> > need answer for my lfs project thx
> 
> Please don't attach uncompressed testsuite.log [1].
> 
> | uname -m = i686
> | uname -r = 3.19.0-33-generic
> | uname -s = Linux
> | uname -v = #38~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:17:49 UTC 2015
> |
> |
> | 128. sparse03.at:21: testing storing sparse files > 8G ...
> | ./sparse03.at:29:
> | mkdir posix
> | (cd posix
> | TEST_TAR_FORMAT=posix
> | export TEST_TAR_FORMAT
> | TAR_OPTIONS="-H posix"
> | export TAR_OPTIONS
> | rm -rf *
> |
> | genfile --length 1000 --file begin
> | genfile --length 1000 --file end
> | genfile --sparse --file sparsefile --block-size 512 8G A || exit 77
> | tar -c -f archive --sparse begin sparsefile end || exit 1
> | echo separator
> |
> | tar tfv archive
> | echo separator
> | mkdir directory
> | tar Cxf directory archive
> | genfile --stat=name,size sparsefile
> | cmp sparsefile directory/sparsefile
> | )
> | --- /dev/null       2015-12-01 14:34:19.258291399 +0000
> | +++ /mnt/lfs/sources/tar-1.28/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/128/stderr      
> 2015-12-01 17:51:17.521183405 +0000
> | @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> | +tar: sparsefile: Cannot open: Value too large for defined data type
> | +tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> 
> Looks like tar is not able to open 'sparsefile' (big sparse file).
> Could you check why '#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64' is not used in your
> config.h (or why, for some reason, _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 is not used) [2]?
> Based on the testsuite.log, it looks _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 is defined.
> 
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-01/msg00021.html
> [2] 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Value-too-large-for-defined-data-type

JFYI: I observed this behavior recently on Fedora 23 i386:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288662

# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.22-5.fc23.i686

Pavel