topic Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz in Operating System - HP-UX

unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

masood bt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:26:27 GMT

Downloaded a patch from internet transferred in into my server. Unable to extract
hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz#

gunzip < file.tgz | tar xvf -

gunzip -q < file.tar.gz | tar xvf -
gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Tar: blocksize = 0; broken pipe?

Someone please guide me

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:32:25 GMT

Hi,

# gzip -d hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz | tar xvf -

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Steven Schweda — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:40:45 GMT

> gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format

It seems that gzip/gunzip does not like your
"hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz" file.

ls -l hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

file hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Steven Schweda — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:47:38 GMT

> Downloaded a patch from internet
> transferred in into my server.

That's two chances to cause problems.
Downloaded how? Transferred how?

Some Web browsers may try to "help" you by
expanding a compressed file for you (without
asking). You might try something like:

tar tfv hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

(It can't fail any worse.)

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:56:33 GMT

Shalom,

When these downloads get big, they sometimes do not finish.

I would try the steps one at a time and if that fails, then try the download again.

I've always found ftp script transfer is more reliable.

SEP

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

masood bt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:19:22 GMT

Here are the results when I tried with your suggestions. None seems to be working though..

hhln-mgt-ign101 /var/spool/sw/QBK2008 # gzip -d hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz | tar xvf -

gzip: hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz: not in gzip format
Tar: blocksize = 0; broken pipe?
hhln-mgt-ign101 /var/spool/sw/QBK2008 #
----

hhln-mgt-ign101 /var/spool/sw/QBK2008 # ls -l hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz
-rw-r----- 1 root sys 1561081101 Mar 9 19:34 hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz
hhln-mgt-ign101 /var/spool/sw/QBK2008 # file hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz
hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz: awk program text
hhln-mgt-ign101 /var/spool/sw/QBK2008 #
-----
hhln-mgt-ign101 /var/spool/sw/QBK2008 # tar tvf hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz
directory checksum error
hhln-mgt-ign101 /var/spool/sw/QBK2008 # tar -tvf hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz
directory checksum error
hhln-mgt-ign101 /var/spool/sw/QBK2008 #

Transferred the tgz file into the server thru winscp

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Tingli — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:34:21 GMT

You can download again, or in a different format, or a different file transfer software.

Or another way, download the download script, then download it to your hp server directly.

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Steven Schweda — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:41:27 GMT

If gzip hates it, and "tar" hates it, then
I'd say that it's corrupt.

Personally, I'd prefer to do the download
directly to the HP-UX system. Web browsers
work there, wget works there, and there's a
simple, safe FTP client program, too.
Bringing in a Windows system (??? You didn't
say, ...) and some unknown Web browser just
add more ways to make things fail.

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:49:33 GMT

Hi:

> Transferred the tgz file into the server thru winscp

That's a great tool, but make sure that you transfered it in binary mode.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

masood bt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:19:10 GMT

Shall try to download it again

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Suraj K Sankari — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:10:22 GMT

Hi,

Don't download the .tgz format try to download only .tar fromat, I have also faceing the same problem so many times.

suraj

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

B. Hulst — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:21:26 GMT

or use the GNU tar command...
(after you installed the GNU tar you get this extra 'z' option to decompress files)

tar zxvf file.tgz

:-)

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

Steven Schweda — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:15:54 GMT

> or use the GNU tar command...

If plain gzip and plain "tar" both hate the
file, do you really expect "[GNU]tar z" to do
better? If so, why?

> Don't download the .tgz format [...]

If you use programs and procedures which do
not corrupt the data, there should be no
problem downloading ".tgz", ".tar.gz",
".tar.bz2", or anything else. I do it all
the time. (I don't use MSIE on Windows,
which may be a big advantage.)

Re: unable to extract hpux__11.23_03090250.tgz

masood bt — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:46:35 GMT

Downloaded again .zip file