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FS#46159 - [tar] 1.28-1 does not handle large files

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Robin (robin67) - Monday, 31 August 2015, 06:09 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 21:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
tar does no longer handle large files and throws this error message:

tar: /folder/file: Cannot open: Value too large for defined data type

This file was just over 3G in size

Additional info:
* version 1.28-1

Steps to reproduce:
tar -cvf tarfil.tar file
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 21:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 01 September 2015, 02:53 GMT
Also adding Allan because of  FS#46163 
Comment by Volker Schmidt (connaisseur) - Tuesday, 01 September 2015, 05:11 GMT
Just a note: It's NOT tar that's having a problem, it's glibc!

See my evaluation on  FS#46163 . Downgrading to a older version of glibc cures the issue. Guess that 32bit versions were not compiled with LARGE_FILE-Support. Or LARGE_FILE-Support in the recent version of glibc is broken.



Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 01 September 2015, 05:33 GMT
I assume it involves this bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18781

It is fixed upstream - I can't rebuild until Saturday.
Comment by Robin (robin67) - Tuesday, 01 September 2015, 05:53 GMT

@Allan: Thanks for the update. I'll check again this weekend then

@Volker Schmidt It used to be working in my 32bit version, so it must be recent it broke
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 21:35 GMT
glibc has been updated, so I assume this is fixed.

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