bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. error

schneidz · 05-26-2015, 03:39 PM

something like this mite work:

Code:

wget --user=schneidz --password=h3ll0-w0rld --save-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies http://path.to/tarball.tar.gz

or depending on the sites authentication mechanism, this mite work:

Code:

wget --save-cookies cookies.txt \
     --post-data 'user=foo&password=bar' \
     http://server.com/auth.php

# Now grab the page or pages we care about.
wget --load-cookies cookies.txt \
     -p http://server.com/interesting/article.php

viktorkh · 09-18-2020, 02:37 AM

tar -xvjf XpressConnect-x86.tar.bz2 >> Because the flag 'j' is used, tar command will call bzip2 to process the decompression.

Reported error explained
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. >> bzip2 reported to parent process (tar) that the received file to process is NOT bz2 format

tar: Child returned status 2 >> tar reports the error status received from bzip2 child process by exiting execution.
In man documentation, error status 2, means to indicate a "corrupt compressed file". As bzip2 did not recognized the format and reports it as 'corrupt'

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now >> According to message received from child, compressed file is not accepted for processing

Steps to fixing the issue:
1- verify the format of the compression

Code:

file XpressConnect-x86.tar.bz2

You probably will receive the result as below:
POSIX tar archive (GNU) - "Or whatever other format". Then correct it with the next step 2

2- Correct the extraction instruction, according the format revealed in previous step 1

Code:

tar -xvf XpressConnect-x86.tar.bz2