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AIX Hobbit Client Update - Tar Error

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list Kapildev Khemraj · Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:13:11 -0400 ·
Hi,

Hobbit newbie here.  I am having issues with the clientupdate on some AIX systems.  Some of the AIX systems have the following error message in hobbitclient.log:

/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
2007-10-03 19:02:14 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 512

The clientupdate is working on other AIX boxes.  This is occurring on some AIX 5.2 and 5.3.  The tar that is used to update with is good because another AIX box is successfully updating with it.  I tried re-creating the tar, but that did not help.

Any insight on this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dev.
list Stef Coene · Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:03:07 +0200 ·
quoted from Kapildev Khemraj
On Thursday 04 October 2007, Kapildev Khemraj wrote:
Hi,

Hobbit newbie here.  I am having issues with the clientupdate on some AIX
systems.  Some of the AIX systems have the following error message in
hobbitclient.log:

/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
2007-10-03 19:02:14 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 512

The clientupdate is working on other AIX boxes.  This is occurring on some
AIX 5.2 and 5.3.  The tar that is used to update with is good because
another AIX box is successfully updating with it.  I tried re-creating the
tar, but that did not help.

Any insight on this will be greatly appreciated.
I see you use the gnu tar to unpack the tar file.  Maybe the other boxes are 
using the AIX tar ?
I remember vagely that there was a problem with tar+hobbit+aix ...


Stef
list Greg L Hubbard · Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:04:02 -0500 ·
Isn't this a "known" issue with Hobbit 4.2 -- specifically for AIX? 
quoted from Kapildev Khemraj

-----Original Message-----
From: Kapildev Khemraj [mailto:user-f325d260e6f8@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 6:13 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] AIX Hobbit Client Update - Tar Error

Hi,

Hobbit newbie here.  I am having issues with the clientupdate on some
AIX systems.  Some of the AIX systems have the following error message
in hobbitclient.log:

/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
2007-10-03 19:02:14 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 512

The clientupdate is working on other AIX boxes.  This is occurring on
some AIX 5.2 and 5.3.  The tar that is used to update with is good
because another AIX box is successfully updating with it.  I tried
re-creating the tar, but that did not help.

Any insight on this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dev.