Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:40:34 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: marcus@miami.edu (Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gzip/tar error? Message-ID: <199807020340.XAA07917@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980701225252.8456B-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> from "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" at "Jul 1, 98 10:57:08 pm"
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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
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