From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 21:19:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27399 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 21:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27363 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 21:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07917; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:40:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199807020340.XAA07917@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: gzip/tar error? In-Reply-To: from "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" at "Jul 1, 98 10:57:08 pm" To: marcus@miami.edu (Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke wrote: > Just recently, tar.gz archives I pull from FreeBSD all produce this error > when doing a tar -xzf to them: > > gzip: stdout: Broken pipe > /usr/bin/tar: child returned status 1 > > This doesn't happen with anything I tar and gzip myself. Could my tar > binary have been corrupted? This has happened now with the latest version > of ppp (from Brian's page [6/30/98]), and the newest lesstif (as of July > 1, 1998). The unarchives files seem to be okay. This erro, though, has > me worried. Should I recompile tar, or could this be something else? > Thanks. > Ignore the error. The child "returning 1" is gzip (i.e. gunzip). The error arises because gunzip expects a full block worth of trailing nulls (IIRC) at the end of its input, is not getting them, so err-exits. As you have noticed, the untarred files are OK. Dave -- http://www.microsoft.com/security: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message