Hi,
I don't recall but I think I've orphaned the package.
Anyway, I suggest using xz compression instead.
On 15/10/14 19:21, Norman Ramsey wrote:
> Package: lzma
> Version: 9.22-2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I tried to compress a large file using lzma. But lzma failed to open the
> file.
> The command line was
>
> lzma -v9 filtermail.log
>
> lzma failed with an error message 'Cannot open input file filtermail.log'.
>
> The file in question is 23GB:
>
> : nr@labrador 12746 ; ls -lh filtermail.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nr nr 23G Oct 15 13:17 filtermail.log
> : nr@labrador 12747 ; ls -l filtermail.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nr nr 23732206014 Oct 15 13:17 filtermail.log
> : nr@labrador 12748 ;
>
> Here is some information from strace:
>
>
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
> 0xb74b0000
> mprotect(0xb7739000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
> mprotect(0xb7783000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
> munmap(0xb7745000, 125574) = 0
> brk(0) = 0x8812000
> brk(0x8833000) = 0x8833000
> rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x80567f0, [TERM], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8)
> = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x80567f0, [HUP], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = > 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x80567f0, [INT], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = > 0
> umask(077) = 02
> lstat64("filtermail.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=23732206014, ...})
> = 0
> open("filtermail.log", O_RDONLY) = -1 EOVERFLOW (Value too large for
> defined data type)
> write(2, "lzma", 4lzma) = 4
> write(2, ": ", 2: ) = 2
> write(2, "Cannot open input file filtermai"..., 37Cannot open input file
> filtermail.log) = 37
> write(2, "\n", 1
> ) = 1
> exit_group(1)
>
> I expected lzma to compress the file.
>
>
> N.B. gzip -v9 is compressing the file now.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.6
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages lzma depends on:
> ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u4
> ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5
> ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
>
> lzma recommends no packages.
>
> lzma suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
--
Mohammed Adnène Trojette
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