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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Cc: mark@grondar.za
Subject: tar complains "EOF not on block boundary"
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>Number:         778
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       tar complains "EOF not on block boundary" on a good tarfile.gz
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 12 14:20:01 PDT 1995
>Closed-Date:    Tue Oct 22 02:11:54 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Tue Oct 22 02:12:21 PDT 1996
>Originator:     Satoshi Asami
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
The FreeBSD Ports Team
>Environment:

	This happens on a very recent -current only, not on -stable.

>Description:

	tar says "EOF not on block boundary" when it is given a perfectly
	fine (I think) tarfile.gz.  It happens on Mark Murray
	(mark@grondar.za)'s machine too.

>How-To-Repeat:

	tar tvzf /usr/ports/distfiles/dvips558.tar.gz

	The funny thing is, it doesn't complain if you gunzip the file
	first and "tar tvf" it.  It does print out the entire table of
	contents in either case.

	This is the only tarfile I found (so far) to have this problem.
	(I tried the whole /usr/ports/distfile directory on my machine...
	 it has about 180MB worth of distfiles.)

>Fix:
	
	No idea.  MALLOC_OPTIONS=Z didn't help, by the way. :)

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: scrappy 
State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 21 23:12:27 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  

Dust off the cobwebs - Confirm Status 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: scrappy 
State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 02:11:54 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  

Originator Confirmed Closure 
>Unformatted:
