Bug 171625 – "invalid sparse archive member" when extracting tars

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Bug 171625 - "invalid sparse archive member" when extracting tars

Summary:	"invalid sparse archive member" when extracting tars

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	tar (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Peter Vrabec
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Blocks:	187538
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Reported:	2005-10-24 11:17 EDT by Josh Kelley
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2006-0336
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-05-03 17:45:55 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2006:0336	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	tar bug fix update	2006-05-03 00:00:00 EDT

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Description Josh Kelley 2005-10-24 11:17:16 EDT

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Description of problem:
Using tar to extract tar files created within Amanda often gives the following errors:
tar: ./filename: invalid sparse archive member
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

This causes problems when restoring backups from Amanda.

This has been reported against Fedora Core in bug 143969 and bug 146314 but has not yet been fixed (as far as I can tell) in RHEL.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tar-1.14-8.RHEL4.i386

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an Amanda backup.
2. Try to restore it: amrestore -p /dev/nst0 server /home | tar xvf - 

  

Actual Results:  Error message:
tar: ./filename: invalid sparse archive member
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers


Expected Results:  Successful restore.

Additional info:

Comment 6 Charlie Brady 2006-04-21 10:28:50 EDT

Supposedly a bug fixed in tar 1.14.91. See:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-12/msg00014.html
http://www.archivum.info/debian-bugs-dist.lists.debian.org/2004-12/msg09819.html

Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-05-03 17:45:55 EDT

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0336.html

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