Bug 1122171

Summary: xarchiver does not work with xz format
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mladen Kuntner <mladen.kuntner>
Component: xarchiverAssignee: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: christoph.wickert, jcapik, jpokorny
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Description Mladen Kuntner 2014-07-22 17:12:48 UTC
Description of problem:
xarchiver crashes when creating xz archive

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xarchiver-0.5.2-17.fc19.x86_64
xz-5.1.2-4alpha.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
Easy - happens always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open File manager
2. Select files for archive
3. Click create archive
4. select xz format
5. Xarchiver crashed - xarchiver killed by SIGSEGV

Actual results:
No archive file created, xarchiver crashed

Expected results:
Archive file created

Additional info:
xz from command line work without problems

Comment 1 Jan Pokorný [poki] 2014-12-16 14:30:02 UTC
This lack of xz compression support is not very desirable.

xarchiver-0.5.2-18.fc20.x86_64 is not segfaulting for me but it gives
a following message:

> Can't open file "<file>": Archive format is not recognized!

Found this upstream bug: http://sourceforge.net/p/xarchiver/bugs/62/
but not sure about the current state in upstream releases.

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Comment 4 Jan Pokorný [poki] 2015-03-19 20:26:05 UTC
Huh, no idea why it is/was not working, while it had been fixed while
back as I've just found out: [bug 577480].

Comment 5 Jan Pokorný [poki] 2015-03-20 08:29:34 UTC
I've checked that unability to open XZ compressed files (*.tar.xz
archives in particular) seems to be fixed with 0.5.4 at latest,
as tested with experimental COPR build:

https://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jpokorny/xarchiver/build/82431/

Comment 6 Jaromír Cápík 2015-03-31 19:44:56 UTC
I'm upgrading to 0.5.4 in rawhide. All patches have been merged and .tar.xz works like expected.