[Bug-tar] Re: unexpected EOF

[Esther Kuehn]

Hello,

I just tried to use GNU tar to unpack a 2.1 GB tar archieve. Everything looked ok, he showed me all the files in there but always (whether I want to list or to unpack the files of the tar archieve) it finishes with an error:


address@hidden:~$ tar -xvf TUT_data.tar
dvd_01/
dvd_01/LICENSE
dvd_01/README.html
dvd_01/README.txt
dvd_01/exp1-1/
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-001.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-002.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-003.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-004.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-005.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-006.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-007.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-008.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-009.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-010.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-011.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-012.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-013.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-014.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-015.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-016.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-017.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-018.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-019.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-020.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-021.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-022.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-023.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-024.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-025.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-026.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-027.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-028.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-029.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-030.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-031.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-032.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-033.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-034.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-035.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-036.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-037.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-038.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-039.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-040.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-041.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-042.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-043.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-044.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-045.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-046.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-047.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-048.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-049.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-050.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-051.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-052.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-053.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-054.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-055.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-056.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-057.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-058.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-059.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-060.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-061.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-062.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-063.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-064.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-065.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-066.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-067.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-068.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-069.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-070.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-071.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-072.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-073.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-074.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-075.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-076.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-077.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-078.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-079.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-080.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-081.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-082.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-083.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-084.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-085.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-086.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-087.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-088.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-089.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-090.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-091.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-092.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-093.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-094.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-095.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-096.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-097.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-098.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-099.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-100.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-101.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-102.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-103.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-104.zip
tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
tar: Nicht behebbarer Fehler: Programmabbruch.

in english:

tar: unexpected EOF in archive
tar: error is not recoverable: exciting now

Further, when I try to extract at least one of the shown files I also get an error message

address@hidden:~$ tar -xvf TUT_data.tar dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-104.zip
dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-104.zip
tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
tar: Nicht behebbarer Fehler: Programmabbruch.


I really dont know how to handle that, could you give me any help?

Thanks,

Esther