Re^2: Segmenation Fault in IO::Uncompress:Bunzip2

Thanks.

Seems the issue occured on another system on the original ascii file but got copied into the compressed archive and I ended up with the bad chunk.

Couldn't figure out a clean way to move past it the perl IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 is allocating a reasonable amount of memory to store the line but the corrupted line is huge and causes a seg fault. Only way would be some C code level fix in that module.

So I kind of had to leave it there and hunt down and manually clear the several hundred corrupted files.

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Re^3: Segmenation Fault in IO::Uncompress:Bunzip2 by flexvault (Monsignor) on May 12, 2013 at 11:55 UTC
Hello megaframe, I'm curious about your answer/comment. If I understand you correctly, It sounds like the problem was created on another system and then transferred to your system where the problem occurred for you. If that is correct then you have found a software bug in the utility that generates the archive. That implies that you'll get this problem again, and you'll have to manually fix the corrupted files. That doesn't sound like a good fix, but your time is important and maybe it will be years before it happens again. If not try to change the utility on the offending computer. Good Luck...Ed "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin	[reply]

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Re^3: Segmenation Fault in IO::Uncompress:Bunzip2
by flexvault (Monsignor) on May 12, 2013 at 11:55 UTC

Hello megaframe,

I'm curious about your answer/comment. If I understand you correctly, It sounds like the problem was created on another system and then transferred to your system where the problem occurred for you. If that is correct then you have found a software bug in the utility that generates the archive.

That implies that you'll get this problem again, and you'll have to manually fix the corrupted files. That doesn't sound like a good fix, but your time is important and maybe it will be years before it happens again. If not try to change the utility on the offending computer.

Good Luck...Ed

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

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