Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: file-roller
When trying to decompress a tar.bz2 or tar.gz archive on FAT drive,
file-roller quits with following error message
tar: {filename goes here}: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not
permitted
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
despite being able to decompress all files - if I'm quick, I can open
them in the temporary directory created by file-roller, but as soon as
the decompression process ends, file-roller deletes them, so I'm left
with no files at all.
Suggested solutions:
- File-roller should run tar without -p option
- As above, but only when the target drive is FAT (or any other that doesn't
support POSIX permissions)
- Decompression errors should not delete all the files, but the user should be
given the option: "Decompression process ended with following errors. Do you
wish to remove the partially-decompressed files?" [Yes/No]
- File-roller should check if the errors generated by tar are fatal or not and
react accordingly
My FAT drive is mounted as following:
/dev/sda2 on /media/ACER type vfat
(rw,iocharset=utf8,dmask=000,fmask=0111,utf8=1,flush)
** Affects: file-roller (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: fat tar
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file-roller fails to decompress tar.gz or tar.bz2 archive on FAT drives
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601634
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