[csw-maintainers] CSWgtar - Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

[Joerg Schilling]

Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote on 15.11.2010 09:43:
> > No dia 15 de Novembro de 2010 08:30, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> > <maciej at opencsw.org> escreveu:
> >> maciej at unknown ~/src/examplepkg $ gtar xfvz hello-0.1.0.tar.gz
> >> hello-0.1.0/hello.texinfo
> >> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > This is on x86.  On sparc, the file was unpacked successfully.  I only
> > have one x86 host to test right now, and gtar segfaults there every
> > time (therefore, probably not a bad memory problem).
>
> Just tried this with tarballs from mbuffer [1] and drbd [2]. Both
> extracted fine. Where did you get your tarball from?

GNU tar seems to have known bugs since at least two weeks. Even 1.25 has been 
reported to be buggy.

Jörg

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