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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org