On 12/14/2009 09:57 AM, Russel Caldwell wrote: >> Maybe it wasn't created correctly. In other words, maybe it isn't bz. >> >> Are you doing tar xvfj tarball.tar.bz? Try letting tar auto-detect the >> format by doing just tar xvf tarball.tar.bz >> >> You could also try using the file command to double check the file >> format. >> >> When I do file myDocs.bz it returns: >> > bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k > > When I do file myDocs.bz it returns: > > bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k > > > When I do tar xfj myDocs.bz it returns: > > bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing. > > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > When I do tar xvf myDocs.bz it returns: > > tar: myDocs/: Cannot read: Is a directory > > tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > When I do bzip2 -tvv myDocs.bz to check the integrity of the file the final > line of output says: > > [139: huff+mtf rt+rld]data integrity (CRC) error in data > > > I've tried to use 'bzip2recover' and as far as I can tell there seems to be > four blocks of corrupted data. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > Sounds to me like an incomplete file. Perhaps the transfer was interrupted for the very last part of the file.
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