Thread: Invalid tar magic
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vinc17 is offline vinc17
2008-02-28 , 10:25
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I have the same problem on my N810:
Code:
/media/mmc2 $ tar xzvf mpfr-2.3.1.tar.gz
tar: invalid tar magic
/media/mmc2 $ gunzip -c mpfr-2.3.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
tar: invalid tar magic
Edit: I've tried the 5 formats (gnu, oldgnu, v7, ustar and posix) handled by GNU tar to create the archive and get this error in every case. The gmp-4.2.2.tar.gz archive can be untar'ed.

Any idea?

Edit: I've reported a bug: BusyBox v1.6.1 has broken tar.
Last edited by vinc17; 2008-03-21 at 09:29. Reason: additional information