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1905 regular use major always 2006-10-29 15:47 2009-04-05 12:56
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0001905: star 1.5a75 unable to extract a tar file it created
I really do not know how to lock this down to a simple test case. But it is absolutely reproducible.

I have a large tar file created with star and extraction fails.

Regardless if I use my own build of star or a binary from CSW I get the exact same error.
Here is the problem :

# /export/home/dclarke/bin/star --version
star: star 1.5a75 (sparc-sun-solaris2.11)

Copyright (C) 1985, 88-90, 92-96, 98, 99, 2000-2006 Jörg Schilling

# /export/home/dclarke/bin/star -x -z -time file=/export/nfs/kayak/kayak-f.tar.gz
/export/home/dclarke/bin/star: Cannot recover from error - exiting.
/export/home/dclarke/bin/star: 67961 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 695920640 bytes = 679610.00k).
/export/home/dclarke/bin/star: Total time 192.974sec (3521 kBytes/sec)

An older rev of star seems to work fine

# /opt/schily/bin/star_old --version
star: star 1.5a57 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8)

Copyright (C) 1985, 88-90, 92-96, 98, 99, 2000-2005 Jörg Schilling
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I will try to lock this down to some small test case input data.

Issue History
2009-04-05 12:56 joerg Note Added: 0005882
2009-04-05 12:56 joerg Status new => closed

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(0004631)
joerg   
2007-06-17 06:08   
This is theoretically impossible....

Please try the current blastwave backe for star (1.5a80)
and check again.
(0005882)
joerg   
2009-04-05 12:56   
use star-1.5