SUMMARY I was using ark to unpack a zip file (Matlab installation file in that instance, so I cannot provide it). When I tried to run the installer I found there was weird errors that library files were too short. Upon inspection those files in .so.# were just containing another file name. For example lixexpat.so.1 was containing the text libexpat.so.1.8.7 which happened to be another file in the same folder. When using unzip directly those files uncompressed properly as relative symbolic link. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Gentoo Linux KDE Plasma: 5.27.6 KDE Frameworks: 5.108.0 QT: 5.15.10
Can you please check which plugin you are using? (See also: Bug 415723)
I will not be sitting physically at the machine before Monday (New Zealand time), I'll let you know then.
I have the following plugins that mention zip (in order of appearance in the plugin pane): * 7z * info-zip * libzip I cannot see any menu to enable to choose a plugin, so I guess there is a default selection order amongst those.
I tried to deselect plugins to see if I could isolate which one. But it appears the list is regenerated each time a command touch an archive. Effectively the selection menu for plugin does not behave like I expect. It seems the only way to figure which plugin has the behavior is to un-install the others so you are sure they are not detected.
OK, I still see the behavior after uninstalling p7zip and info-zip [they are now grayed in the plugin menu], which leaves libzip as our culprit, unless libarchive or RAR somehow get used as a priority for .zip.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 415723 ***