Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] busybox tar unable to decompress etc.tar.bz2 after save-config

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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Hey,

please DO NOT send a new post to the ML by replying to an existing post.
Many of us use "threaded view" for the mails, which get's screwed up.

On Wed, June 7, 2006 22:13, Rick Frey wrote:
> Been using Devil-Linux 1.2.6 for nearly a year.  All of a sudden this
> month was unable to boot after running save-config.  Came across message in
> mailing list archive with same problem (see original message below), but
> never saw resolution in subsequent thread:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12196562
>
>
> Found problem was caused by compressed file created by save-config using
> bzip2 with "-s" option  which prevented busybox tar from being able to
> decompress the file.  If I remove the "-s" option, busybox tar has no
> problem decompressing file (GNU tar able to decompress fine either way).
>
> Since I have plenty of RAM, I use a modified save-config file that uses
> bzip2 w/o "-s" option that works fine with busybox tar.  I do not have any
> additional large files in /etc or /root.  Never had the problem till last
> month after using 1.2.6 for quite some time.  Only changes during that
> time period (that I can think of) were firewall rules and openvpn config
> changes. Overall size of etc.tar (before and after compression) is
> basically same before and after problem.    Is this a known bug?

I'm going to remove that parameter, since I had issues too.
It's just a small archive, so I don't think we will have issues unpacking it.

> Thanks,
> - Rick
> P.S. Great work on the devil-linux distro!
>

Thanks

- -- 

Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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