It transpires that the problem is to do with the mobile broadband that many of
us now use. Its compression methods are what mangled the files, though I have
now moved from Vodafone ot T-mobile with none of the symptoms.
You can close the bug I filed. Thanks.
Lee Wilson
Date: Mon, 5 Oct
I have just tried the same using the live CD (a CD verified as free from
defects) with the same results, so it's definitely a bug rather than any
installation problems. Would be pleased to hear that the team have
found the same results. Thanks.
--
won't open tar.gz in 9.04
Yes, there is no problem with the commonly used website itself, which I
used before with 8.10, and I also tried tar.gz files elsewhere on other
sites with the same result to verify this.
Although this is not a security matter, I do think it's not an
unimportant one, because everyone uses Archive
Any of the window borders from the page below produce the result I get,
except Agatha, which is a tar.bz2 file.
http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity?page=1
After downloading them try to open them with a double-click or drop them
into the theme box via System Appearances Themes
Oddly I've
This is the other site that made me sure art.gnome.org wasn't at fault:
http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Themes_(301-400)
--
won't open tar.gz in 9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370535
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: file-roller
Themes downloaded from for example art.gnome.org won't open by Archive
Manager (apparently this is 'file-roller'?). This happens on both my
computers, with Ubuntu 9.04 freshly installed; no updates so far have
solved this and it's a common
This is what it says if I double-click on one of these tar.gz files:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
--
won't open tar.gz in 9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370535
You received this bug notification
