[ILUG] gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

[Sam Johnston]

Ok, now I'm having the same problem with another (more important) tgz file,
again where there is embedded compressed information :(

/AgileWebDevelopmentWithRails2ndEd.pdf

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

On 10/27/06, Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> wrote:
>
> Granted, but the bzip2 file is *within* the broken gzip file, and the
> breakage just happens to be where the bzip2 file is.
>
>  - samj
>
> On 10/27/06, Lars Hecking <lhecking at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > Sam Johnston writes:
> > > Morning all,
> > >
> > > I have a gzip'd tar file containing a backup of a web server which was
> >            ^^^^
> >
> > > recently rebuilt. It was stored in a truecrypt volume and is believed
> > to be
> > > verbatim but no hashes (nor the backed up data) exist to verify that.
> > It
> > > does however contain a large bzip2 file of the Linux source which I
> > suspect
> > > may be causing some confusion:
> > >
> > > /linux- 2.4.24.bz2
> >                 ^^^
> >
> > gzip != bzip2
> >
> >
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