-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 14:09, Jay Wilton wrote: > Hello, > > I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to > unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala > tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. > > file /bin/bzip2 > /bin/bzip2: empty
An "ls -aFl" example would help. > I reinstall with a: apt-get install --reinstall bzip2 > and it still happens but not every time. I have purged > bzip2 and reinstalled, but it still happens. This is my > second install with this problem, so I'm a bit worried. > > The same thing just happened to /bin/gzip. It seems to > randomly happen. Anyone else having this problem? Randomly happen???? $ dir /bin/bzip2 - -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 25304 2006-08-25 12:20 /bin/bzip2* $ dir /bin/gzip - -rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 53984 2006-12-21 10:17 /bin/gzip* - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGS2jrS9HxQb37XmcRApoSAKCRBZhiymdp/qiQNuF1Y1lj4XuVtACfcYY/ yZB87fK1ejEYwkF1yfcHANc= =Bk6n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]