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



On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:43 AM, Sven Luther wrote:

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:54:43PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
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.

I see this too, furthermore, i seem to be no more given the choice of
installing testing or unstable.

Anyway, i just wanted to say that it would be very helpfull if the
debootstrap failure message would include also a mention to the package
which triggered the failure.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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I experienced this same error last night using the sarge businesscard daily from 02/16/2004, and the package was perl-base. The error behaved exactly the same when I tried the mirror at ftp.us.debian.org using ftp and again when I tried the mirror at mirror.kernel.org using http. It may be mirrors.kernel.org, but you know which one I mean. My notes say mirror.kernel.org, but I am not sure they're correct.

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