tar-1.15.1-17 segmentation faults when extracting files /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/openssl-0.9.7f-usa.tar take /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/openssl-0.9.7f-usa.tar.bz2 from FC4 openssl-0.9.7f-7.10 /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/openssl-0.9.7f-usa.tar.bz2 >b gdb tar (gdb) run -xf b Starting program: /bin/tar -xf b Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x635000 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1208957248 (LWP 24032)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1208957248 (LWP 24032)] xattrs_xattrs_set (st=0xbfcefe8c, file_name=0x8866aec "openssl-0.9.7f/test/randtest.c", typeflag=50 '2') at xattrs.c:386 386 keyword += strlen("SCHILY.xattr."); (gdb) bt #0 xattrs_xattrs_set (st=0xbfcefe8c, file_name=0x8866aec "openssl-0.9.7f/test/randtest.c", typeflag=50 '2') at xattrs.c:386 #1 0x08052624 in set_stat ( file_name=0x8866aec "openssl-0.9.7f/test/randtest.c", st=0xbfcefe8c, cur_info=0x0, invert_permissions=0, permstatus=UNKNOWN_PERMSTATUS, typeflag=50 '2') at extract.c:296 #2 0x0805309a in extract_finish () at extract.c:1240 #3 0x0806117b in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfcf00c4) at tar.c:1761 #4 0x00668d7f in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x0804ab91 in _start () (gdb) This is tar-1.15.1-17 which is compiled and run on FC4
Looks this is related to xattr support commenting in SPEC #%patch15 -p1 -b .xattrs everythings starts working OK
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 208701 ***