On 11/15/2010 07:22 AM, Sebastian Kayser wrote: > Hi, > > we are packaging GNU tar for Solaris and since tar 1.24 we've been > seeing segfaults when extracting archives (testing and creating archives > works fine). It doesn't seem to be specific to a single archive. Even an > archive created with GNU tar itself causes a segfault. It seems to be > specific to > > * the architecture: x86 (SPARC is fine) > * the tar version: 1.24+ (pre 1.24 is fine) > * the Solaris release: 10U9 (pre 10U9 is fine)
> $ gtar xfvz hello-0.1.0.tar.gz > Segmentation Fault (core dumped) > > Any idea what's going wrong? Very likely the same latent bug that bit coreutils when trying to set any file timestamps, and exposed only if you mix too-old gnulib with the very latest Solaris kernel patches: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-11/msg00035.html Have you tried tar 1.25, or tar.git with the latest gnulib.git? -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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