On Thursday 05 June 2008 17:08, E Robertson wrote: > Hi All, > I did a search on the "tar: short read" error and notice it was > reported several times and fixed but it looks like it's broken again. > I have a U-boot binary image in an archive file and tried to extract > it using the following command: > > #tar -xz -C /tmp -f /tmp/usbstick/IMG_ARCHIVE.gz ./upgrade/uboot.img > tar: short read
>From the name of it it doesn't seem to be a tar file at all. Can you show "gunzip <IMG_ARCHIVE.gz | hexdump -Cv | head -200"? > # echo $? > 1 > > However, the uboot.img has not been extracted. I repeated this several > times with the same result. > I did the same thing on my kernel image and although this was > extracted, the size of the extracted image is less than half the > original size. > > Is this a bug? If not, Is their a solution for this? So far there is insufficient data to know what is it. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
