Bug 738823 - xzcat complains that compressed data is corrupt, xz -c works fine
Summary: xzcat complains that compressed data is corrupt, xz -c works fine
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xz
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-09-15 21:51 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-09-15 22:08:20 UTC
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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...
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