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

[Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:23:50PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 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 ?

I don't know which package is at fault, but it sounds like fallout
from bug 230872.

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