Re: Broken snapshot archives
Tomasz Zielonka wrote: Some recent GHC snapshot files seem to be broken. For example with http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.5.20060927-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 I get: $ tar jxf ghc-6.5.20060927-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly; perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows. bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files. You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data from undamaged sections of corrupted files. tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Yes, this is due to a long-standing problem with our firewalls that sometimes cause corruption of an SSH connection. I'll try to make it retry or delete the file on failure instead of leaving a broken tarball in place. Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
Re: Broken snapshot archives
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:30:10PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Tomasz Zielonka wrote: Some recent GHC snapshot files seem to be broken. Yes, this is due to a long-standing problem with our firewalls that sometimes cause corruption of an SSH connection. I'll try to make it retry or delete the file on failure instead of leaving a broken tarball in place. Try using rsync. It doesn't leave partially transferred files (unless you ask it to do it). The file on the target machine is first created with a different name, and renamed to the final name only if it was transferred successfully. rsync can work over SSH, and in the basic scenario has similar command-line options. Best regards Tomasz ___ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
Broken snapshot archives
Hello! Some recent GHC snapshot files seem to be broken. For example with http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.5.20060927-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 I get: $ tar jxf ghc-6.5.20060927-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly; perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows. bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files. You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data from undamaged sections of corrupted files. tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Best regards Tomasz ___ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
