Bug 801711

Summary: file -z doesn't uncompress bzip2 archives
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component: fileAssignee: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Karel Srot <ksrot>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6.2CC: jronto
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Fixed In Version: file-5.04-14.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: Because of bad condition in File code, File used read timeout when decompressing files using file -z parameter. Consequence: File was not able to detect files compressed by bzip2. Fix: Bad condition has been fixed and file now doesn't use timeout when decompressing compressed files. Result: File now detects compressed file when using -z parameter as expected.
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: 847936 881789 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-10-04 12:21:35 UTC Type: ---
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Description Karel Srot 2012-03-09 08:56:09 UTC 
Description of problem:

on RHEL6 file -z cannot extract bzip2 archives when using -z option

file-5.04-6.el6.x86_64
$ file -z gfs1partition.bz2 
gfs1partition.bz2: data (bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k)

this is working on RHEL5:

file-4.17-20
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'file -z gfs1partition.bz2 &> log1'
gfs1partition.bz2: Linux GFS1 Filesystem (blocksize 4096, lockproto lock_nolock) (bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k)
Comment 1 Karel Srot 2012-03-09 10:35:18 UTC 
also tested with file-5.04-11.el6 and file-5.04-13.el6, still not working.
Comment 2 Jan Kaluža 2012-03-09 11:32:20 UTC 
It's bug file-5.x branch caused by addition of built-in zlib decompressing support.
Comment 3 Jan Kaluža 2012-08-07 06:32:29 UTC 
Created attachment 602653 [details]
proposed patch
Comment 4 Jan Kaluža 2012-08-07 06:35:11 UTC 
Upstream bug report: http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=192
Comment 8 Jan Kaluža 2012-08-14 07:37:54 UTC 
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Cause: Because of bad condition in File code, File used read timeout when decompressing files using file -z parameter.
Consequence: File was not able to detect files compressed by bzip2.
Fix: Bad condition has been fixed and file now doesn't use timeout when decompressing compressed files.
Result: File now detects compressed file when using -z parameter as expected.
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-04 12:21:35 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1339.html