severity 350031 important
tags 350031 moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:48:23AM +1300, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 20:02 +0100, Hans wrote:

> > When starting tar with option -vj or -vz, tar starts normally. After some
> > seconds it changes the setting of all console letters to unreadable signs.
> > This happens only on 64-bit-machies. The same version on 32-bit works
> > fine.

> I have both amd64 and ia64 systems running this version of tar and have
> not seen a problem.  Can you provide a sequence of steps that will help
> me try to reproduce your problem?

Indeed, I'm using tar just fine on alpha with no problems either.  Sounds
like it may be specific to a particular tarball, and therefore of lower
severity?

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