tgz Uncompress error

[jeleberger]

Hi All,

Infos : VMmark version : Latest Released Version: 1.0 | 07/23/07 | 20070712

I want to try VMmark in a lab.

After download the fist preconfigurate-VM (Database Server Template (.tgz)) from the VMware website, i try to decompress this file on the ESX service console.

I use this command line to do this step :

tar zxf VMmark-DatabaseServerTemplate-20070712.tgz

..end I became this error message :

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I try to do the same on a Windows with 7-zip with the same result.

I try this all operation on more OS and Internet access.

Any experience on this situation ?

[admin]

We haven't seen this issue before. Is it possible that file was truncated during download? To verify the integrity of the file, you can check the md5sum of the downloaded file to make sure it matches the posted value on the web page that you downloaded from.

[ceebee2]

Hello,

I get the same error as mentioned above. The checksum of the downloaded file is fine. I tried to uncompress the files on windows (7-Zip) and linux machines (Ark). Both ways I was not able to uncompress the files. What am I doing wrong? Any hint would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

CB

[Bruce Herndon]

Have you checked to make sure that there is sufficient disk space on the target file system? That often leads to errors like this.

[ceebee2]

I have approx. 60GB free on the Linux machine and 30GB on my Windows desktop. How much free space do I need for one template?

[fireguy306]

I believe it's around 10gb for the database server and 8gb for the other two.

Also i had a lot of issues with the uncompressing in windows and a linux OS.

I ended up using the service console and it worked perfectly fine.

[James Zubb]

The tarballs were created on the ESX service console with tar version 1.13.25 which is installed by default on ESX. It is entirely possible that there is a version problem with the programs you are trying to use to uncompress, could you post the versions? I will see if I can figure out what is going on. I have been able to uncompress the tarballs on windows using Cygwin tar v1.20

Try uncompressing from the sevice console as suggested by fireguy.

[ceebee2]

Hello @all,

Problem solved: My mistake was to rely on graphical interfaces ... 7zip and Ark both stopped uncompressing the files with an error message saying that the archive was not valid. So I tried to untar them via the linux command shell with "tar xzvf filename.tgz" which worked perfectly fine. Thanks to fireguy for your hint! It seems that the graphical tools have some problems with large files.

Thanks @all for your help!

CB