This is wider than just bzr-builddeb. I'm experiencing this issue every once in a while on my x64 karmic server, doing the mozilla & chromium dailies.
$ bzr bd --merge --build-dir=/data/bot/ppa --orig-dir=../tarballs --builder='dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -S -sd -kB6EE20E8' Building using working tree Running in merge mode Looking for a way to retrieve the upstream tarball Upstream tarball already exists in build directory, using that gzip: stdout: Broken pipe tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors bzr: ERROR: There was an error executing tar to uncompress /data/bot/ppa/chromium-browser_4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226.orig.tar.gz. $ cd ../tarballs $ tar ztvf chromium-browser_4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226.orig.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x fta/fta 0 2009-09-15 19:46 chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/ -rw-r--r-- fta/fta 73786421 2009-09-15 19:46 chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226-source.tar.lzma gzip: stdout: Broken pipe tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors $ tar zxvf chromium-browser_4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226.orig.tar.gz chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/ chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226-source.tar.lzma gzip: stdout: Broken pipe tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors $ cp -a chromium-browser_4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226.orig.tar.gz foo.tar.gz tar ztvf foo.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x fta/fta 0 2009-09-15 19:46 chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/ -rw-r--r-- fta/fta 73786421 2009-09-15 19:46 chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226-source.tar.lzma gzip: stdout: Broken pipe tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors $ gunzip foo.tar.gz $ echo $? 0 $ tar tvf foo.tar drwxr-xr-x fta/fta 0 2009-09-15 19:46 chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/ -rw-r--r-- fta/fta 73786421 2009-09-15 19:46 chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226-source.tar.lzma $ tar xvf foo.tar chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/ chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226-source.tar.lzma $ ls -l chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226/ total 72136 -rw-r--r-- 1 fta fta 73786421 2009-09-15 19:46 chromium-browser-4.0.210.0~svn20090915r26226-source.tar.lzma If i scp this tarball to my 32bit desktop (karmic too), it's all fine. -- unpacking the upstream tarball not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399938 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
