Description of problem: (Reported by Jeff Peeler) Take a regular ISO file, truncate it down to ~10 MB, and try to extract it: $ guestfish -a truncated.iso -m /dev/sda1 tar-out / /tmp/iso-content.tar [...] error in chunked encoding Also the appliance crashes. The real error is a kernel error, something like: [ 109.397757] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 109.403722] vda: rw=0, want=580844, limit=16512 The real error is not communicated back to the user, and the appliance crashes making further commands impossible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.14.8, but likely to affect recent versions