OK... I seemed to have solved that one, by checking out what Martin suggested. It seems there was something wrong with tar. As it was installed, tar (in the bin folder) was an alias to gtar. So I manually installed an executable tar instead of the alias and it worked. Now on to my next problem.

Thanks.


On Jan 2, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Casey Stone wrote:



On Jan 2, 2004, at 12:16 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:


Casey Stone wrote:

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gzip -dc /sw/src/unzip550.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xvf -
### execution of gzip failed, exit code 139

There was a thread on this on 25-27 November (the error code was 138, not 139, but it was on OSX 10.2). Unfortunately, the list never learned whether the problem was solved or not.
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[ALUpb:~] cstone% sudo gzip -d /sw/src/unzip550.tar.gz
This latter command, with the sudo, works! Then I have the .tar file sitting there in the src folder.

Did you try the whole command, with the /sw/bin/tar bit? It could be that your /sw/bin/tar doesn't work.

Maybe I didn't paste in the whole command. Now when I tried it with SUDO and the whole command, gzip -dc /sw/src/unzip550.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xvf -, i got a "Segmentation fault"
Does that suggest a tar problem?


Thanks for your continued effort.

-Casey

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I'm on 10.3.2, Fink 0.6.2, G4 Powerbook. The partition's name does have spaces in it.

It does? This is a bad idea, in any case, if you want to do Unixy things on it. I don't know if it can cause the problem you are seeing.


--
Martin





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