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Hi, I need to extract a tarball but unfortunately this error occurred when I tried it # tar zxvf toolchain.tar.gz tar: Skipping to next header gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format ...
  1. 03-17-2010 #1
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    Unable to extract tarball

    Hi,

    I need to extract a tarball but unfortunately this error occurred when I tried it
    # tar zxvf toolchain.tar.gz

    tar: Skipping to next header
    gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
    tar: Child returned status 1
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
    # file toolchain.tar.gz
    toolchain.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Wed Nov 28 09:40:11 2007

    Is there a way that I can recover or extract the tarball? I tried to gunzip first but to no avail as well.
    Thank you.
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    gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated ftp ascii transfer - LinuxQuestions.org

    this might help
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  3. 03-17-2010 #3
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    how did you download this file? most likely it is corrupted
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