Description of problem: When extracting a directory from a large tarfile, the error star: Tar file too small (amount: 0 bytes). star: Unexpected EOF on input. star: Cannot recover from error - exiting. appears. The extracted directory appears correct (except the last file and top-level directory don't have their modification times set back) so I think this is a completely spurious error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): star-1.5a25-6 How reproducible: not sure (only attempted once) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run command of the form "star zxvf archive.tgz directory". Actual results: Correct output with above spurious error message. Expected results: Correct output without error message. Additional info: Archive was originally created using star (from FC2).
I can not reproduce this bug. What was the size of tarfile and extracted directory?
The size was roughly 500 MB. I am also unable to reproduce the bug now with the tarfile. Is it possible that it was generated by the udev flakiness that affected the CDROM device before the initial udev update was applied (since this happened just after a clean install, probably before I had a chance to apply the updates)?
Sorry, forgot to mention that the .tgz file was on a CDROM.