Bugzilla Bug 200315

After upgrading to kde 3.5.8, each time Ive tried to compress a folder I get an
error that "the addition operation has failed". Tried numerous times to
reemerge ark and the suggested ebuilds ark recommends when it merges but no
success.

Reproducible: Always

emerge --info missing. Also, what are you trying to compress?

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2,
glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
4200+
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.2-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch
sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/miscellaneous /usr/local/portage/vmware"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowtext S3TC X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi aiglx alsa
amarok amd64 apm arts artworkextra asf audiofile automount avahi avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bittorrent branding bzip2 cairo calendar
cann cdparanoia cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups curl dbus deprecated
devil dga directfb discouraged dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds
effects elisp emacs emboss emerald encode esd evo examples exif ext-man ext-rtf
ext-tex extraicons fam fat fax fbcon fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac flash
foomaticdb fortran freetype fuse gb gcj gd gdbm gdphoto2 gedit gif gimp
gimpprint glitz gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hddtemp
hfs howl html iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib inkjar ipv6 isdnlog jack
java jfs joystick jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility kerberos lcms ldap libao libcaca
libg++ lirc lm_sensors logrotate mad mail midi mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mng
mono mozbranding mozcalendar mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysql nas
nautilus ncurses networking new-login newspr nforce2 nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin
ntfs nvidia odbc offensive ogg opengl openmp oss pam parport pcre pdf pdflib
perl pmu png postgres ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar
rdesktop readline reflection regex reiser4 reiserfs samba scanner sdl seamonkey
session skins slp smp sndfile snmp sound sounds speex spell spl spreadsheet
sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification streams subversion svg swat symlink
sysfs syslog tcltk tcpd tetex theora thesaurus threads thunderbird tidy tiff
timidity tk truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb utempter
v4l vcd vdr voice vorbis vram weather wmf wordperfect xattr xcb xcomposite
xforms xfs xine xml xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib"
ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x
ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3
trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw
asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa
lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint
i128 i810 mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage
siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS



I  originally  tried  to  compress  gentoo  sources  to  put  use  on  another 
machine.  When  that  failed  I  tried  a  small  folder  in  my  home 
directory,  that  also  failed.  The  same  thing  occurs  on  three  of  my 
boxes,  2  x86  and  1  amd64.  This  was  not  happening  before  I  upgraded 
to  kde  3.5.8.

Problem  is  not  in  kde,  its  with  tar,  1.19  is  broken,  downgrade  to 
1.18r2  and  all  is  okay.  Changing  resolution  on  this  bug  and  opening 
new  bug  for  tar.

*** Bug 200402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Err, tar works perfectly fine here, no idea what's ark doing.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151708

I  knew  it  had  something  to  do  with  upgrading  to  3.5.8.  Tar 1.19 
went  stable  and  was  updated  a  few  weeks  ago  on  all  my  machines. 
Theres  no  way  I  would  have  missed  it.  Now  the  question  is ......Is 
there  anyway  to  fix  ark  so  that  it  will  work  with  the  new  version?
 Or  do  we  have  to  just  use  the  1.18  tar  version  for  now?

You can just ignore the error message for now because the archive gets created
regardless of the problem. I'll see if I can do something about fixing the
message, though.

Archives were NOT getting created. This is a problem that does not have any
easy resolution. The problem is in kde, not with gentoo. Would probably be
helpful to change keywording on tar 1.19 to testing, at least until the problem
is solved so that as more and more people upgrade kde they wont run into the
same thing. 

It's a bug in tar-1.19:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2007-12/msg00001.html

Re-assigning to base-system.

thanks for the link, fixed in tar-1.19-r1

http://sources.gentoo.org/app-arch/tar/files/tar-1.19-update-flag.patch?rev=1.1

*** Bug 211099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***