Version: 2.15 (using KDE 4.5.1) OS: Linux I am trying to compress a directory as ZIP/TAR and it stops at creating a *.tar.gz.arkWriting file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: RMB click the directory in Dolphin and select Compress->As ZIP/TAR Archive. Actual Results: A *.tar.gz.arkWriting file is created. Expected Results: A *.tar.gz file should be created. The *.tar.gz.arkWriting file can be opened in Ark but it seems to contain an incomplete copy of the uncompressed directory.
Well, what's the directory's full path? Does it still happen if you rename it?
The path is /storage/school/Algonquin I tried renaming Algonquin to A and copying the directory to A2. The KDE notifications always say "Adding a file (finished) and the *.tar.gz.arkWriting file is left around. I can manually run tar and gzip. $ tar -cf /storage/school/Algonquin.tar /storage/school/Algonquin tar: Removing leading `/' from member names $ gzip /storage/school/Algonquin.tar Is there a log file somewhere?
There's no log file, but if you run Ark from a terminal you may see some debugging output (especially if you have debug symbols and/or a debug build). Does the problem also happen if you create, say, a ZIP file, or if you move Algonquin to /tmp?
I copied the directory to /tmp and it creates a larger Algonquin.tar.gz.arkWriting but still fails. Compress->As ZIP Archive seems to be complete. I tried Compress->Compress To and selected a tar file and it failed. It created a Algonquin.tar.arkWriting. Running from a terminal doesn't show much: ark(11448): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''. " ark(11448): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''. " I tried to recompile Ark with debugging but maybe I did it wrong because there is no more output.
(In reply to comment #4) > I copied the directory to /tmp and it creates a larger > Algonquin.tar.gz.arkWriting but still fails. Hmm. Is there anything special in that directory (files with non-UTF8 encodings, for example)? What if you try to compress some subdirectory in there? > I tried to recompile Ark with debugging but maybe I did it wrong because there > is no more output. Have you compiled it passing -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DebugFull to cmake? You probably need to activate debug area 0 by running kdebugdialog.
I still can't get debugging to work. :-( I did narrow it down to a subdirectory (some directories work but not this one). Unfortunately that directory has tons of subdirectories. :-( Trying to compress them all would take forever. I found one non-UTF8 filenames? $ find . | perl -ne 'print if /[^[:ascii:]]/' The Technical Writerâs World.ppt The Technical Writerâs World.ppt Yay, it finishes now that I renamed one file. :-)
Well, it looks like it's a broken encoding issue. Qt4 and KDE4 currently expect Unicode file names, so compression fails with that file/directory you mentioned. From Ark's side, the *arkWriting file should have been removed, and an error message should be shown. However, we cannot compress that file/directory -- it first needs to be converted to an appropriate encoding. The `convmv' utility might help you with that. Thanks for the report! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 165044 ***
SVN commit 1185340 by rkcosta: [libarchive] Remove the temporary file when compression fails. CCBUG: 252812 M +3 -0 libarchivehandler.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1185340
SVN commit 1185343 by rkcosta: [libarchive] Show an error message when compression fails. CCBUG: 252812 M +4 -0 libarchivehandler.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1185343
SVN commit 1185344 by rkcosta: [libarchive] Remove the temporary file when compression fails. Backport of r1185340. CCBUG: 252812 M +3 -0 libarchivehandler.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1185344