Bug 701165 – Error install tarball

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Bug 701165 - Error install tarball


Summary:	Error install tarball


Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG

Product:	sysadmin
Classification:	Infrastructure
Component:	Other
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Mac OS

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	GNOME Sysadmins
QA Contact:	GNOME Sysadmins

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Reported:	2013-05-29 00:56 UTC by David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
Modified:	2013-08-24 10:30 UTC

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Description David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2013-05-29 00:56:01 UTC

[davidz@master ~]$ ftpadmin install gnome-disk-utility-3.8.1.tar.xz 
Gathering information and sorting on version: ., done
Preparing installation of gnome-disk-utility-3.8.1.tar.xz:
 - Checking consistency: ....Traceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 231998

File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1688 in <module>
```
main()
```
File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1673 in main
```
options.func(options, parser)
```

File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1363 in cmd_install

module.install(unattended=options.unattended, clobber=options.clobber)

File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 887 in install
```
if not self.validate(clobber):
```
File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 873 in validate
```
errors = self.fileinfo.check(progress=True)
```
File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 328 in check
```
for info in t:
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 2411 in next
```
tarinfo = self.tarfile.next()
```
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 2313 in next
```
self.fileobj.seek(self.offset)
```

IOError: unknown BUF error

Comment 1 David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2013-05-29 01:01:11 UTC

My bad. This was a partial tarball. Could be nicer with a better error message though. Sorry about that.

Comment 2 Olav Vitters 2013-05-31 12:26:27 UTC

Not supposed to give a traceback.