Comments on: tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

By: vishal

vishal — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:36:47 +0000

Even I tried the command you suggested but still getting below error

$ gzip -d staging_encyc.tar.gz

gzip: staging_encyc.tar.gz: unexpected end of file

By: vishal

vishal — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:18:29 +0000

Also I tried below command,I am getting below exception.Need your help in this regard.
Thanks!

$ tar -xvzf staging_encyc.tar.gz

.
.
.
./encyc/file/34/8/340873.dat
./encyc/file/34/8/340876.dat
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

By: vishal

vishal — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:15:59 +0000

Hi FlashNutz,
Can you please help us in resolving below issue.

$ gunzip staging_encyc.tar.gz
gunzip: staging_encyc.tar.gz: unexpected end of file

By: Reith

Reith — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:43:22 +0000

I have same problem in bz2 tar archive.
my archive corrupted, so i used bzip2recover and join rec000* files. with bzip2 -dc make a .tar file but when i try to extract tar archive get this error:
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
any suggestions are welcome!

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:55:19 +0000

You’re a god among men, thanks!

By: adlepoo

adlepoo — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:47:59 +0000

I get the same gtar error sometimes. It turns out sftp transfers to a Windows box was corrupting the archive.

If tar gives errors also, I would investigate the possibility of corruption. digest -a md5 comparisons are helpful.

By: rajeev

rajeev — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:09:59 +0000

problem solved:

find sites from where you can directly download files using
wget url

It will 100% work

By: rajeev

rajeev — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:39:24 +0000

I want to extract mysql-5.0.21.tar.gz on linux server for installtion
but, I unable to extract. I tried to apply tar, gzip, gunzip, gtar
but not able to fix the problem
here is the error when I tried with gtar and same error occurs with tar also
root@vps home
[mysql-5.0.21/]# gtar zxvf mysql-5.0.21.tar.gz
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/Makefile.in
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/btree/
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/btree/bt_reclaim.c
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/btree/bt_stat.c
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/btree/bt_delete.c
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/btree/bt_rec.c
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/btree/bt_compare.c
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/btree/bt_cursor.c
mysql-5.0.21/bdb/btree/bt_search.c
gtar: Skipping to next header
ysql-5.0.21/bdb/bttre/bt_sspli.c
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data–crc error

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

By: irina

irina — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:29:21 +0000

and what i should do if the same error appears when i
$ tar xf *.tar