Bug 203414

Summary:	Large files don't seem to get installed
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Akarsh Simha <akarsh.simha>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	alexey.skladnoy, faure, mboquien, pindle
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Akarsh Simha 2009-08-11 12:40:18 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Large files downloaded via GHNS don't seem to get installed correctly.

Users have repeatedly complained that KStars' 1.4GB star catalog (2.1GB when unextracted) which is downloaded via GHNS (Link to providers.xml: http://edu.kde.org/kstars/downloads/providers.xml) downloads completely, but fails to install.

Here's a rather long thread on the KStars' mailing list, that discusses the issue:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kstars-devel&m=124979648307943&w=2

Here's a very relevant message, that identifies a potential cause of the bug as a type overflow:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kstars-devel&m=124993060615429&w=2

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2009-08-12 06:15:08 UTC

Probably an KTar or KGZipFilter issue.

Comment 2 David Faure 2009-08-14 01:14:16 UTC

Did you test with ktartest on the file?
If that fails, I can have a look (please include direct link to the file I should test, thanks)

Comment 3 Alexey Khudiakov 2009-08-16 16:08:56 UTC

What is ktartest exactly? And where could it be found 

BTW link to tar file in question 
http://download.kde.org/apps/kstars/USNO-NOMAD-1e8-1.0.tar.gz

GNU tar has no problems with its decompression.

Comment 4 Médéric Boquien 2009-08-19 23:02:04 UTC

*** Bug 204462 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 David Faure 2009-08-20 12:10:56 UTC

Like all kdelibs test programs: in kdelibs ;)
(cd kdelibs/kio/tests; make ktartest)

Indeed the bug happens in ktartest, I'll fix it.
-Asterix- dfaure 12:05 /d/kde/build/t/kdelibs/kio/tests>./ktartest USNO-NOMAD-1e8-1.0.tar.gz
ktartest(25505)/KTar KTar::createDevice: mimetype= "application/x-gzip"
ktartest(25505)/KTar KTar::createDevice: creating tempfile: "/tmp/dfaure-kde4/kde-dfaure/ktar-k25505.tar"
ktartest(25505)/KTar KTar::KTarPrivate::fillTempFile: filling tmpFile of mimetype "application/x-gzip"
QFile::at: Cannot set file position -2121848832
ktartest(25505)/KTar KTar::openArchive: skipping -2121849344 failed
ktartest(25505)/KTar KTar::KTarPrivate::readRawHeader: KTar: invalid TAR file. Header is: "Ú<

Comment 6 David Faure 2009-08-20 12:46:33 UTC

SVN commit 1013636 by dfaure:

Fix ktar bug with large files. Will backport for 4.3.1.
BUG: 203414


 M  +2 -2      ktar.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1013636