Bug 738823

Summary:	xzcat complains that compressed data is corrupt, xz -c works fine
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component:	xz	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	a.badger, jnovy, pknirsch
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Description Orion Poplawski 2011-09-15 21:51:22 UTC

Description of problem:

# file initrd.img
initrd.img: XZ compressed data
# xzcat initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.raw
xzcat: initrd.img: Compressed data is corrupt
# xz -c < initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.raw
#

xzcat does produce about 12MB of output.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xz-5.0.3-1.fc15.i686

Also seen on EL6 with xz-4.999.9-0.3.beta.20091007git.el6.x86_64

Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2011-09-15 22:06:26 UTC

Okay, user error there.  unxz -c gives the same error (corrupt).  Not sure what is up with it complaining about being corrupt though.

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2011-09-15 22:08:20 UTC

Apparently it is a series of xz images...