Re: tar: Skipping to next header file
What you suggested did not work, so I downloaded the source again (from
kernel.org). Now it says:
tar: Skipping to next header file
It doesn't say anything else like last time. It just ends and goes back to the
prompt.
Any ideas?
dpk wrote:
> Try using tar -zxvf linux-2.0.33.tgz. If you get that error again, it means
> that the file is corrupted and you will have to download the source again.
> All the kernel sources I download come with a tar.gz extension... I get them
> usually from kernel.org or sunsite. Did someone else package that for you?
>
> Dennis
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> On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:
>
> > I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes
> > along fine until it stops and says:
> >
> > tar: Skipping to next header file
> >
> > gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error
> > tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary
> >
> > I used the following commands to try to uncompress the kernel source:
> > gzip -dc linux-2.0.33.tgz | tar xvB
> > tar xpvf linux-2.0.33.tgz
> > They both produced the same error.
> > Any ideas? Please help.
> > Thanks.
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