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Article #56746Re: Nasty Tar Problem
From: Edward J Bluhdorn
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:00
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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. ... I found the problem today after installing Debian 1.2. It only seems to affect the -M (multi-volume) option, a 'tar xvf' is fine. I took a tar from the 2.0.0 Slackware distibution, which worked OK. I did not investigate the linking, though. It may be that it is statically linked. It is 89060 bytes, compared with the 'broken' tar at 77769 bytes. Both report the version as 'GNU tar 1.11.8'. The tar archives I made with the bad tar seem to be OK. It is the read which bombs. For what it is worth, that is how I got around the problem. Regards, Edward. -- Edward J Bluhdorn e-mail : bluhdorn@canb.auug.org.au Australian Capital Territory 2611 voice - bus. : 61-6-216-4497 AUSTRALIA fax - bus. : 61-6-216-4213 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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