Bug 370986

Summary:	Ark can't extract RAR file
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Peter Eszlari <peter.eszlari>
Component:	plugins	Assignee:	Ragnar Thomsen <rthomsen6>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	elvis.angelaccio
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.04.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Peter Eszlari 2016-10-17 05:25:56 UTC

When I try to extract a RAR file by right clicking and "Extract here", Ark crashes. When I try it on the commandline, I get "ark.kerfuffle: Could not find a plugin to handle "/home/user/file.rar".

OS: Kubuntu 16.10
unrar: 5.3.2

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-10-17 14:36:13 UTC

Git commit 33c5874b39a1182402d0869b74417c50195ec37f by Elvis Angelaccio.
Committed on 17/10/2016 at 14:32.
Pushed by elvisangelaccio into branch 'Applications/16.08'.

Stop crashing when batch extracting invalid archives

When starting a --batch extraction job, the input can be any
kind of archive, even an unsupported one. So we need to discard invalid
archives before starting the job.
Related: bug 370959

M  +1    -1    app/batchextract.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/ark/33c5874b39a1182402d0869b74417c50195ec37f

Comment 2 Peter Eszlari 2016-10-17 15:31:20 UTC

I don't understand this commit message. The problem is not only the fact that ark crashes, but also that it doesn't find the installed unrar.

Comment 3 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-10-17 15:49:25 UTC

(In reply to Peter Eszlari from comment #2)
> I don't understand this commit message. The problem is not only the fact
> that ark crashes, but also that it doesn't find the installed unrar.

Yes, you are affected by two bugs. For the crash see bug 370520, for the broken RAR support see bug 368786. The problem is that Kubuntu is shipping Ark 16.04 which is no longer maintained...

You can try to ask the Kubuntu packagers to backport the commits that fix the bugs above.

Closing as duplicate of 368786 for now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 368786 ***

Comment 4 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-10-17 15:50:42 UTC

(In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #3)
> Yes, you are affected by two bugs. For the crash see bug 370520
Sorry, this should have been bug 370959