It does look like you have a problem on your machine with using tar. You said you get variations on the list you can find if you manually used tar to uncompress this file. What do you mean by variations? Sometimes it finds a file and sometimes it doesn't?
Is there a possibility you can ask your UNIX admins to check to see if they can patch another available version of tar for your OS and try with that? Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dwayne Martin Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "arsystem.tar" error installing as non-root Hi Hugo, In my initial email I said that I was on Linux. I didn't say specifically Red-Hat 4, which maybe I should have. Dwayne ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:03:19 +0200 >From: Hugo Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: "arsystem.tar" error installing as non-root >To: [email protected] > > ** It could be your version of "tar" (you didn't > share the OS you are installing on). I know that GNU > tar differs from some other tar versions, some open > source sites explicitly state that you need gnu tar > for their releases. It might be that you need GNU > tar or that your OS version of tar needs updating. > > If you have a windows box around you could try to > untar the file using winzip or the like to verify > the integrity of the downloaded file. > > Hugo > > On 9/17/07, Joe D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ** > > It does sound like a corrupted file to me.. Did > you try to download the file again and install > from a newly downloaded file? > Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion > list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Dwayne Martin > > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 11:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: "arsystem.tar" error installing as > non-root > > First of all, Thank You! to those who responded. > > In the installation screen output I am finding: > > ** > ---------- List of Extracted Files ----------- > bin/ > bin/runmacro > tar: bin/runmacro: Wrote only 1536 of 10240 bytes > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > tar: help: Not found in archive > tar: locale: Not found in archive > tar: templates: Not found in archive > tar: plugins/ssoldap: Not found in archive > tar: plugins/ardbcconf: Not found in archive > tar: plugins/areahub: Not found in archive > tar: plugins/serveradmin: Not found in archive > tar: plugins/FlashboardObject: Not found in > archive > tar: ora_db: Not found in archive > tar: samples: Not found in archive > tar: z: Not found in archive > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > ** > > I copied "arsystem.tar" to a "temp" file and > un-tarred it. It produced a lot of folders with > subfolders and files. "help", "templates", > "plugins", "ora_db" and "z" are not there, but > "locale" and "samples" distinctly are. (I get > variations on the list of things it can't find.) > > Could this be the problem? If so, why hasn't > anybody else noticed it? I'm surely not the first > person to try installing 7.1 (altho I may be the > first to install as non-root). And why am I > getting the same error when re-installing 7.0.1, > which I have installed successfully in the past? > > I tried renaming "arsystem.tar" to > "arsystem.tar.bk" and the installer complained > right away, so it at least is finding the file. > > Now, to reply to those who responded: > Axton: > > "You have to make sure that /etc/rpc was updated > with the proper program numbers if installing as > non-root." > > Please tell me more. My non-root login has > permissions to /etc/rpc. What numbers should I be > seeing? > > Take a look in the install script and see where it > attempts to upack the tar file. It could be that > the user has no permissions to the location where > the tar is being unpacked." > > A good thing to check on. I looked at the script > and everything appears to be going into files that > the non-root login has permissions to, and has > been writing into all along. > > "It may also be that you are missing a / at the > beginning of the path for the installation > product:" > Another good thing to check on. But yes, the "/" > is there. > > Joe: > "What is the error you are getting during the > install???" > "./ar_install : Unable to extract the product > files from the CDROM file > arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar" > > Mac: > "Yes, before you execute the install, run this > command to tell the install you are installing as > non-root > export ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE" > Have good weekend." > > Yes, I have set up and exported > "ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE"". The installer stops > you right away if you don't have > ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE", and you aren't root. > > Thanks again, > Dwayne Martin > > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:20:44 -0400 > >From: Axton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: "arsystem.tar" error installing as > non-root > >To: [email protected] > > > >You have to make sure that /etc/rpc was updated > with the proper > >program numbers if installing as non-root. > > > >Take a look in the install script and see where > it attempts to upack > >the tar file. It could be that the user has no > permissions to the > >location where the tar is being unpacked. > > > >It may also be that you are missing a / at the > beginning of the path > >for the installation product: > > > >./ar_install : Unable to extract the product > files from > >the CDROM file arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > >Axton Grams > > > >On 9/14/07, Dwayne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, > >> > >> I am upgrading our Linux AR Server from 7.0.1 > to 7.1 as non-root. (Oracle 10.2 db) > >> > >> Everything went OK till the very end when I > got: > >> > >> * * * > >> ./ar_install : Unable to extract the product > files from > >> the CDROM file arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar > >> > >> * * * > >> > >> The message referred me to two log files, one > of which simply repeated what I saw on the screen, > and the other gave the date and time of > installation. > >> > >> I logged in as root, and gave > "arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar" total permissions. > I can see it with my non-root login. > >> > >> But when I tried the installation again I got > the same error. > >> > >> And here is what makes it really bad. I > restart the AR System, and it says "Action Request > System initialization is complete," but when I try > to sign in on the User tool I get. "ARERR [90] > Cannot establish a network connection to the AR > System server : rem2 (0) : RPC: Program not > registered." "ps -ef | grep armonitor" etc shows > that none of the vital processes are running. > >> > >> Fortunately this isn't our live server, but I > can't do any development work till this gets > solved. > >> > >> Finally I decided to reinstall the 7.0.1 > version. But when I do (I've tried it twice) I > get the same error. I've installed 7.0.1 several > times and never seen this error. > >> > >> Any idea what is going on and what I can do > about it? > >> > >> Dwayne Martin > >> James Madison University > >> > >> Dwayne Martin > >> Computing Support > >> James Madison University > > __20060125_______________________This posting was > submitted with HTML in it___ > > __20060125_______________________This posting was > submitted with HTML in it___ Dwayne Martin Computing Support James Madison University No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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