Re: problem untaring oracle 8i file

From: Knut Talman <knut.talman_at_mytoys.de>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 15:11:47 +0200
Message-ID: <3CD7D293.CF44000@mytoys.de>

Jose Santana wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem installing Oracle 8i in my Red Hat 7.2 box. I
> downloaded the file linux81701.tar and I try untaring with: tar xvf
> linux81701.tar
> The extraction goes fine for a little while and then it stops. The
> following is the last line shown on the screen and the error messages:
> :
> Disk1/stage/Components/oracle.rdbms.seeddb/8.1.7.0.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/se
> ed/system01.dbf.jar
> ?r-xr-xr-x 47202/502 6277054 2001-01-16 18:14:13 unknown file type ` '
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable. Exiting now

But it really looks like a corrupted archive, look at "Unexpected EOF in archive".

Regards,

Knut Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 08:11:47 CDT