🚀 go-pugleaf

I'd like to thank Guy Maor from Debian for helping me with this, as well
as everyone else who had some useful advice. Lindsay at Murdoch deserves
thanks for offering his/her time on this one!

There is a debian package at master.debian.org called

tar_1.11.8-7_i386.deb

in the /Debian/Incoming which fixed the problem. Guy says that he's
waiting for a couple of files fom the maintainer so it can be added to
rex-fixed.

If you don't use Multi-volume tar files then don't bother downloading it,
there's a limit of 5 anonymous users there. It'd be nice if one of the Oz
mirrors grabbed a copy though! 

I wonder how long I'd of had this problem with a commercial OS?


John Foster



On Thu, 9 Jan 1997 jfoster@coenzac.eas.gu.edu.au wrote:

> 
> I've got a very nasty problem with tar 1.11.8-5 ona debian 1.2 system
> 
> If I try to unpack a multivolume archive with
> 
> tar -M -x -v -f /dev/fd0
> 
> I get a segfault and core dump.
> 
> gdb reports that the sigfault comes from libc-5.4.13
> 
> I'm wondering how to get some very important files off some floppies while
> I wait for the debian people to get a fix happening.