tar problems

gtludwig · 10-23-2005, 07:43 AM

Hello, guys,

I'm having a problem that may seem trivial to some but I've no idea how to solve.

I've downloaded a library and it was compressed as .tar.gz. So, I tried:

Quote:

tar -xvzf package_name.tar.gz

And this is what returned from the terminal:

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tar: Mesa-6.3.2/src/glw/README: Cannot change ownership to uid 2001, gid 100: Operation not permitted
Mesa-6.3.2/src/glw/depend
tar: Mesa-6.3.2/src/glw/depend: Cannot change ownership to uid 2001, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: Mesa-6.3.2/src/glx/x11/glcontextmodes.c: Cannot create symlink to `../../../src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/glcontextmodes.c': Operation not permitted
tar: Mesa-6.3.2/src/glx/x11/dispatch.c: Cannot create symlink to `../../../src/mesa/main/dispatch.c': Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

There were a lot of such errors, I've posted just the last lines. The package's md5sum is ok.

I ran the tar command as root and there's no user on my system with this id (uid 2001). Also there's plenty of space left in the directory and the user (root) has permission to view & chance contents.

Anyone has any idea?

Thanks

trickykid · 10-23-2005, 07:46 AM

Looks to me like your trying to unpack this tarball in a directory that you don't have adequate permissions in.

gtludwig · 10-23-2005, 07:52 AM

How do I check that? As root?

trickykid · 10-23-2005, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gustaveiras
How do I check that? As root?

No, ls -al . will print out the present working directory permissions and ownership.

gtludwig · 10-23-2005, 08:12 AM

There's a lot of stuff in this directory - actually some of the stuff here should be deleted (specially the hidden files). It was a home directory for my user on my ext3 partition /dev/hda2 and I backed it up at /dev/hda5 that has about 100Gb of space. Now I use this folder to download the programs I use. But I really need to perform a 5S on this folder...

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root@MCLAREN:/mnt/MCLAREN_D/home/gtl# ls -al
total 1074368
drwxrwxrwx 35 root root 65536 2005-10-23 11:02 ./
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 65536 2005-10-22 13:03 ../
drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 .Azureus/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2005-10-09 19:38 .DCOPserver_(none)__0*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 189 2005-10-09 19:38 .ICEauthority*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-10-20 21:35 .Xauthority-c*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 787 2005-10-20 21:36 .bash_history*
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:19 .emacs.d/
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:19 .firefox/
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:19 .fullcircle/
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 65536 2005-10-20 00:24 .gaim/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 .gftp/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 .gxine/
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:19 .java/
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 65536 2005-10-19 13:48 .kde/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 158 2005-10-05 20:12 .kderc*
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 65536 2005-10-17 12:54 .links/
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:19 .local/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1980 2005-10-05 20:40 .mailcap*
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 .mcop/
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 .mozilla/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 65536 2005-10-19 18:45 .qt/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-10-19 13:45 .screenrc*
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:19 .thumbnails/
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 65536 2005-10-17 10:34 .thunderbird/
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 65536 2005-10-17 10:34 .vegastrike.4.x/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 .xine/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 Desktop/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16867 2005-10-05 20:58 Guia\ Completo\ Linux.zip.to
rrent*
drwxrwxrwx 20 root root 65536 2005-10-17 08:47 MPlayer-1.0pre7try2/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6868786 2005-10-10 12:10 MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2*
drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 65536 2005-10-23 10:33 Mesa-6.3.2/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4041081 2005-10-23 09:53 MesaLib-6.3.2.tar.gz*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13514756 2005-10-20 01:05 Moto\ 336\ kmh.mpg*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11340128 2005-10-05 20:36 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pk
g1.run*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 214522211 2005-10-13 17:46 OpenCASCADE_Linux.tgz*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 80302 2005-10-10 23:12 Servidor.jpg*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3007553 2005-10-20 01:05 apollon-installer-0.8.1.run*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4175943 2005-10-23 11:02 audacity-src-1.2.3.tar.gz*
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 azureus/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 492 2005-10-16 11:55 dhcpd.rar*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 533771799 2005-10-12 17:37 econquer0628.rar*
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:19 firefox-1.0.7.installer/
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:40 firefox-installer/
drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 65536 2005-10-20 15:18 gift-0.11.8.1/
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 65536 2005-10-20 15:20 gift-gnutella-0.0.10.1/
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 65536 2005-10-20 15:19 gift-openft-0.2.1.6/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 237 2005-10-16 12:01 ifcfg-eth0.rar*
drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 65536 2005-10-20 01:23 kguitar-0.5/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 794803 2005-10-17 09:27 kguitar-0.5.tar.bz2*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48000634 2005-10-17 23:15 linux-2.6.13.3.tar.gz*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38375371 2005-10-17 15:10 linux-2.6.13.4.tar.bz2*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 183 2005-10-16 12:00 network.rar*
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 65536 2005-10-20 00:58 normal/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 159 2005-10-16 12:00 resolv.rar*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2103 2005-10-06 09:54 samba.txt*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33101 2005-10-16 11:49 squid.rar*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 147232 2005-10-10 11:16 swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.ta r*
drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 65536 2005-10-09 20:41 thunderbird/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 151671859 2005-10-05 23:18 vegastrike-0.4.3-base.bz2.ru n*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63505311 2005-10-12 12:49 vegastrike-0.4.3-music.bz2.r un*
drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 65536 2005-10-23 11:00 wxGTK-2.6.2/
drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 65536 2005-10-17 08:20 xmule-1.10.0b/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1366907 2005-10-20 15:51 xmule-1.10.1.tar.bz2*
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 65536 2005-10-20 18:51 xmule-1.10.2/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1289442 2005-10-20 18:52 xmule-1.10.2.tar.bz2*
root@MCLAREN:/mnt/MCLAREN_D/home/gtl#

gtludwig · 10-23-2005, 08:43 AM

could it be something I did not compile in my kernel (2.6.13.3) as built-in or module???

trickykid · 10-23-2005, 09:24 AM

Everything is owned by root, are you root when untarring this file?

gtludwig · 10-23-2005, 09:25 AM

yes, I'm logged in as root.

trickykid · 10-23-2005, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gustaveiras
yes, I'm logged in as root.

Are you mounting this from another source since you have this in your /mnt directory path? If so, how is it mounted?

gtludwig · 10-23-2005, 09:36 AM

this device is mounted in /etc/fstab as

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/dev/hda5 /mnt/MCLAREN_D vfat defaults,umask=000 1 0

trickykid · 10-23-2005, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gustaveiras
this device is mounted in /etc/fstab as

type mount to see if this mount is read only or rewriteable..

gtludwig · 10-23-2005, 09:52 AM

/dev/hda5 on /mnt/MCLAREN_D type vfat (rw,umask=000)

gtludwig · 10-24-2005, 04:42 PM

Hello,

I tried to untar another package on /mnt/MCLAREN_D and the same error returned. Then I copied the very file to /home/gtl (my user account) and tried to untar. Worked perfectly! No errors at all! Does anyone has any clue to what happened???

Thanks!

Tinkster · 10-24-2005, 04:55 PM

The problem is vfat

Linux' tar will try to set permissions and ownerships
which is IMPOSSIBLE on vfat, hence the failure.
Use a decent file-system instead.

Cheers,
Tink

gtludwig · 10-24-2005, 04:59 PM

Ah! Now things are clearer! I use vfat on this partition so I can share it with my brothers who are pagans and use Windows...

Thanks for the hint!