Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/28/2012 08:11 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > So I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on another machine and copied the tar v1.22 > > from that machine to my Xubuntu 12.04. It works with out any issues. > > > > So its looks like an issue with tar 1.26 that is distributed with > > Ubuntu/Xubuntu 12.04 rather than a filesystem issue. > > Sorry, but from the symptoms you described earlier, it very > much looks like a file system issue. It's true that you > are observing the bug only when you use tar 1.26, but it's > not a bug in tar 1.26 itself -- it's a file system (or > kernel) bug that tar 1.26 happens to be running into but > that earlier versions of tar do not.
Did you see truss output from the related part of the gtar run? I would like to understand what filesystem bug might cause a missbehavior. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
