Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-11-26 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:48:28 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 17:24:11 +0800, Afriza N. Arief wrote: > > $ tar -czf tarball.tgz folder # failed silently (instantly returns) > > $ tar -cf tarball.tar folder # succeed > > $ gzip tarball.tar # succeed

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-11-26 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 17:24:11 +0800, Afriza N. Arief wrote: > $ tar -czf tarball.tgz folder # failed silently (instantly returns) > $ tar -cf tarball.tar folder # succeed > $ gzip tarball.tar # succeed > $ tar -xzf tarball.tar.gz # failed with tar: Child died with signal 11 >

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-11-26 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Afriza N. Arief ha escrit: > How does tar finds the gzip/gunzip/zcat binary to be used? It uses $PATH. Regards, Sergey

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-11-26 Thread Afriza N. Arief
Hi, I am having the same problem with the original poster. I'm using GNU tar 1.28 and gzip 1.6 from MacPorts. The failure happens in both creation and extraction of combined tar & gzip: $ sw_vers ProductName:Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.10.5 BuildVersion: 14F27 bash-3.2$ which tar gzip /o

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-05-31 Thread Paul Eggert
White, George wrote: (lldb) process launch tf ipred_0.9-3.tar.gz error: process exited with status -1 (lost connection) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2015-02/msg00010.html talked about a child exiting with status 11, so what does that -1 mean? If a child is exiting with status 11

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-02-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 20, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Charles Diza wrote: > Chuck is right; MacOSX has (always, I believe) shipped bsdtar. MacOS X switched to bsdtar around 10.6. Earlier versions shipped with gnutar, but that was before the move to GPLv3 in gnutar v1.18. > Perhaps your tar is from Homebrew or Macports

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-02-20 Thread Charles Diza
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Feb 19, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Sean Morrison wrote: > > I am using tar (GNU tar) 1.26, which is the version installed on mac OS > X Yosemite. > > Are you sure? Mac OS X Yosemite ships with: > > % /usr/bin/tar --version > bsdtar 2.8.3 - lib

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-02-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 19, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Sean Morrison wrote: > I am using tar (GNU tar) 1.26, which is the version installed on mac OS X > Yosemite. Are you sure? Mac OS X Yosemite ships with: % /usr/bin/tar --version bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3 % sw_vers ProductName:Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.1

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

2015-02-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Sean Morrison wrote: What does this error mean and how do I fix it? gzip crashed with a SEGV (segmentation violation). Most likely you have an improperly formatted tarball, and possibly your gzip has some security vulnerabilities that should get fixed sooner rather than later.