Bug#233294: installation report - tar: Unrecognised file type

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@iinet.net.au>]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:51:59 -0500
George Kumengi <George.Kumengi@grc.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Everything works fine until I get a "Base system installation error""
> debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1)
> 
> Virtual Console 3 says:
> tar: Unrecognised file type

The error means busybox doesnt know if the file being extracted is a
regular file or directory or symlink etc, which is very strange, ive not
seen the error triggered before (and i wrote the code).

I would really like to know what triggered it. Any idea which debian
package
or tarfile it was trying to extract ?



Glenn