Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/09/10:02:32
Fred,
Ignore those errors. They're a result of a race condition between "tar" and
the "gunzip" sub-process forked to handle the compressed archive and the
fact that there's some ignored trailing byes in the uncompressed data
stream coming from gunzip. The "-B" flag to tar might suppress this message.
The way I search the User Guide or API document is by using "egrep -l" on
the HTML files then opening the files with hits in my browser. I do it so
infrequently I have not tried to script it, but it would not be difficult.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 21:57 2002-07-08, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote:
>Just a follow-up to the attached with further details. Contrary to what I
>said, rebooting doesn't help (though it did at one point). Other odd
>behaviour is that "gunzip --help" and "gzip --help" seem to send the help
>information all over the screen, as if there were weird tabs randomly
>thrown. Strangely, the help info looks OK if I pipe it through
>"less". Also, "tar --help" does not give this crazy formatting.
>
>I hope I don't have to upgrade cygwin. Now's not the greatest time....
>
>Fred
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: sporadic errors from tar
>Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:42:29 -0400
>From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma AT doe DOT carleton DOT ca>
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm using cygwin on WinME, installed Nov 11/2001, or such is the timestamp
>on /setup.log. In that file, I have thelines
>
> Starting cygwin install, version 2.78.2.15
>
>and
>
> Installing...latest/cygwin/cygwin-1.3.4-4.tar.bz2
>
>I'm hoping I can solve the problem without upating my cygwin at the
>moment, as it's not the greatest time right now.
>
>The problem is when I use tar:
>
> tar cvhzf safe/Paper.33.tgz `tar tzf safe/Paper.32.tgz`
>
>I'm getting the file names from Paper.32.tgz and archiving all those files
>to Paper.33.tgz.
>
>It works usually. Sometimes, I get the error
>
> tar: Child died with signal 13
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>But after these errors, the archive gets created anyway. Once these
>errors start, they don't go away no matter how many times I issue the
>command, regardless of whether I start up another cygwin window. From
>brief experiment, it seems to go away if I reboot the computer.
>
>I also get the errors if I simply try
>
> tar tzf safe/Paper.22.tgz | cat
>
>but not if I leave out the redirection to cat.
>
>I've tried the mailing list search, but the engine died during one of the
>refinements.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>Fred
>
>P.S. Is there a way to search the User Manual?
>
>-------------------------------------------
>Fred Ma
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