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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: bin/778: tar complains "EOF not on block boundary"
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>Number:         778
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       tar complains "EOF not on block boundary" on a good tarfile.gz
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 12 14:20:01 PDT 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Satoshi Asami
>Organization:
The FreeBSD Ports Team
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

	This happens on a very recent -current only, not on -stable.

>Description:

	tar says "EOF not on block boundary" when it is given a perfectly
	fine (I think) tarfile.gz.  It happens on Mark Murray
	(mark@grondar.za)'s machine too.

>How-To-Repeat:

	tar tvzf /usr/ports/distfiles/dvips558.tar.gz

	The funny thing is, it doesn't complain if you gunzip the file
	first and "tar tvf" it.  It does print out the entire table of
	contents in either case.

	This is the only tarfile I found (so far) to have this problem.
	(I tried the whole /usr/ports/distfile directory on my machine...
	 it has about 180MB worth of distfiles.)

>Fix:
	
	No idea.  MALLOC_OPTIONS=Z didn't help, by the way. :)

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