Bug 129001

Summary:	Spurious error message: A lone zero block at...
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz>
Component:	tar	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Thomas Zehetbauer 2004-08-02 20:58:50 UTC

tar-1.14-2 reports "A lone zero block at" the end of almost all of my
previously valid files. Reproducible for example with the following
file:
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/servers/http/apache/dist/jakarta/commons/dbcp/binaries/commons-dbcp-1.2.1.tar.gz

Comment 1 Robert Scheck 2004-08-02 21:16:38 UTC

I'm also able to reproduce this behaviour with latest Fedora 
Development, but the extraction was clean, maybe it's a packaging 
problem, because your listed file is the onliest file with the message
"A lone zero block at" - all my other and older archives don't have 
that problem...

Comment 2 Thomas Zehetbauer 2004-08-02 21:24:26 UTC

This was just an example, I am getting the same error message with at
least the following files: antville-1.0.2.tar.gz,
apache-ant-1.6.0-bin.tar.gz, cocoon-2.1.3-src.tar.gz,
cocoon-2.1.4-src.tar.gz, commons-betwixt-1.0-alpha-1-src.tar.gz,
commons-collections-3.1.tar.gz, commons-dbcp-1.2.1-src.tar.gz,
commons-pool-1.2.tar.gz, dom4j-1.4.tar.gz, helma-1.3.1.tar.gz,
i2c-2.6.4.tar.gz, jakarta-log4j-1.2.8.tar.gz,
jakarta-taglibs-response-1.0.1.tar.gz,
jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27-src.tar.gz,
mysql-connector-java-3.0.10-stable.tar.gz,
mysql-connector-java-3.1.0-alpha.tar.gz, resin-3.0.8-src.tar.gz,
resin-3.0.8.tar.gz, resin-3_0-snap-src.tar.gz, resin-3_0-snap.tar.gz,
smppapi-0.3.2.tar.gz, soap-src-2.3.1.tar.gz,
xalan-j-current-bin.tar.gz, Xerces-J-bin.2.6.2.tar.gz

However the extraction seems to be clean, this is why I wrote
"spurious" in the summary.

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2004-08-03 06:09:56 UTC

Apparently harmless warning:
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-03/msg00027.htm