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0004854

[BusyBox] Other

major

always

09-09-08 06:47

09-11-08 02:04

Reporter

hariseldon78

View Status

public

Assigned To

BusyBox

Priority

normal

Resolution

no change required

Status

closed

Product Version

1.9.x

Summary

0004854: cannot unpack lynx on arm

Description

the command

busybox tar xvzf lynx2.8.6rel.5.tar

give this error:

tar: corrupted octal value in tar header

Additional Information

the busybox version is 1.9.1, i am on an armv4 platform (openmoko 2008.8 distribution on fic gta02 hardware)

kernel: Linux roby-neo 2.6.24 0000001 PREEMPT Wed Sep 3 19:01:18 CST 2008 armv4tl unknown
the file is downloaded from http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2.8.6rel.5.tar.gz [^]

i have been able to untar it on i386 with BusyBox v1.8.2.

i have tried to apply the tar command to the already unzipped file and it gives the same error. no errors when unzipping, again with busybox

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Notes
(0011324) vda 09-10-08 06:50 edited on: 09-10-08 06:52	Enable FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY in your .config If you are curious, the check is in archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c: if (str && (!ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY \|\| str != ' ')) bb_error_msg_and_die("corrupted octal value in tar header"); return v;

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
09-09-08 06:47	hariseldon78	New Issue
09-09-08 06:47	hariseldon78	Status	new => assigned
09-09-08 06:47	hariseldon78	Assigned To	=> BusyBox
09-10-08 06:50	vda	Note Added: 0011324
09-10-08 06:52	vda	Note Edited: 0011324
09-11-08 02:04	vda	Status	assigned => closed
09-11-08 02:04	vda	Resolution	open => no change required