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tar: Skipping to next header

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:53 am
by rana.abdulwahid
Dear all,

I have create a tar file using tar -czf, now while I am untar the file using tar -zvxf it gives me the error and stop.


tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors



Regards,
Rana Abdul Wahid

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:02 am
by amirtai
Hello

It looks like your file got corrupted. Did you move it from different server then try to match the check sum with the command below from source and destination files are same.

md5sum myfile

Regards
Amir