Re: Problem with recent tar on NetBSD/sparc-1.5

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Adrian Bunk <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:03:32 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> $ tar xzf ImageMagick-5.3.8.tar.gz
> tar: Child died with signal 13
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I don't get that problem, as shown below.  I tried it on GNU/Linux
2.2.18ss.e820-bda652a (x86), Solaris 8 (sparc), and OpenBSD 2.8 (x86).

Did you build tar and gzip yourself from the test sources, or are you
using somebody else's package?

If the former, how exactly did you build tar and gzip?

Can you run "ktrace -d -f /tmp/tr tar xzf ImageMagick-5.3.8.tar.gz"
and send me the relevant part of the output of "kdump -f /tmp/tr"?  I
don't want to see all the output; the important thing is to see what
causes signal 13.

Here is an example of my (unsuccessful) attempt to reproduce the problem:

$ md5sum ImageMagick-5.3.8.tar.gz
7e75c8f21844a7bc314abba028a5e74f  ImageMagick-5.3.8.tar.gz
$ tar xzf ImageMagick-5.3.8.tar.gz
$ ls -l
total 3377
drwxrwxr-x   15 eggert   eggert       1024 Sep  3 18:11 ImageMagick-5.3.8
-rw-rw-r--    1 eggert   eggert    3440778 Sep  5 17:11 ImageMagick-5.3.8.tar.gz
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.22
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
$ gzip --version
gzip 1.3
(1999-12-21)
Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H 
Written by Jean-loup Gailly.