On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:09 -0700, Jay Wilton wrote: > Hello, > > I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to > unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala > tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. > > file /bin/bzip2 > /bin/bzip2: empty > > I reinstall with a: apt-get install --reinstall bzip2 > and it still happens but not every time. I have purged > bzip2 and reinstalled, but it still happens. This is my > second install with this problem, so I'm a bit worried. > > The same thing just happened to /bin/gzip. It seems to > randomly happen. Anyone else having this problem? Are you possibly using a script that re-direct improperly? Like is doesn't sanitize the input properly. I wrote a very LONG and complex backup script a few years back for a "hotswap hard-drive" backup system. I failed to think it through. I didn't do escaping or quoting properly doing rsync and other function. I ended up periodically making quite a mess. I finally ended up re-writing the script from scratch and discovered my error. It was when I was backing up files with gt or lt symbols in them. If I were you, I'd check what you are doing in scripts. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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