Bug#263263: file-roller: original tgz lost, temporary tar damaged
and unreadable
Ricardo Mones
Ricardo Mones <ricardo.mones@gmail.com>, 263263@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 3 Aug 2004 17:07:56 +0200
Package: file-roller
Version: 2.6.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: causes data loss
It happened with a big tgz file (~120 Mib (~230 MiB uncompressed)).
Extracting a file it hanged with the cancel button disabled, after a
while a new dialog announced something like "deleting files" so I closed
the window.
Now the original file has gone and I have a quarter GiB of unreadable data,
file-roller says:
tar: Saltando a la siguiente cabecera
tar: El archivo contiene cabeceras base 64 obsoletas
tar: Salida con error demorada desde errores anteriores
(roughly: skipping to next header, archive has obsolete base 64 headers
and the famous: Error exit delayed from previous errors)
If needed I probably can provide the file for testing purposes (they're
mostly pdf articles) but it will take some days as I've lost it, and
currently have no access to the backup machine (my University network is
down).
Anyway I think the original files shouldn't be altered under any
circumstance (except by user request), so I've set the severit to grave.
regards,
P.S.: please CC me to the reply-To address, as I'm unable to access my
normal account.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-k6
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to es_ES@euro)
Versions of packages file-roller depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
ii gconf2 2.6.2-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gzip 1.3.5-9 The GNU compression utility
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-2.1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-4 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-5 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.29-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.2-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt7 1.1.90-9 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.2.1-2 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1-8 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.1.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls10 1.0.4-7 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 0.7-3 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.4-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.0-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.11-2 GNOME XML library
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-8 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii tar 1.13.93-4 GNU tar
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime
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Ricardo Mones Lastra - mones@aic.uniovi.es
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Oviedo en Gijon
33271 Asturias, SPAIN. - http://www.aic.uniovi.es/mones