Bug 110428

Summary:	gunzip fails with error on valid compressed files
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Nick Strugnell <nstrug>
Component:	gzip	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Nick Strugnell 2003-11-19 15:27:14 UTC

Description of problem: 
 
gunzip fails on decompressing lnx_920_disk2.cpio.gz from 
http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html 
with following error: 
 
gunzip: lnx_920_disk2.cpio.gz: invalid compressed data--format 
violated 
 
This archive unpacks fine on RHEL 3AS using gzip-1.3.3-9 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
 
1.3-15 
 
How reproducible: 
 
always 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Download indicated file from OTN 
2. gunzip 
3. 
   
Actual results: 
 
Error message reported above 
 
Expected results: 
 
successful unpack of file 
Additional info:

Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2005-03-22 13:11:28 UTC

How big is the file compressed and uncompressed? Do you have any other file
which fails on 2.1 and gunzips fine on RHEL3 as the lnx_920_disk2.cpio.gz is no
longer on the Oracle web page.

Comment 3 Ivana Varekova 2005-07-01 07:19:05 UTC

I'm closing this bug. 
If anybody can reproduce this problem feel free to reopen this bug.