Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: file-roller
The file name is being used as it as stdin to the gzip program. This is
creates a error when a space character is present in the file name. I am
pasting the error information below.
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
The error resulted when i tried to open "machine job.tar.gz".
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
Package: file-roller 2.24.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/google/chrome
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686
** Affects: file-roller (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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file-roller wont escape the spaces in the tarball file name. Files with spaces
in their names cannot be extracted.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596052
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