Alfio Puglisi wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Kate Turner wrote:
please let me know about any problems with these
files, particularly if
they don't extract correctly.
Test using
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/images/wikipedia/fi/20050530_upload.tar
GNU tar on Cygwin extracts all files correctly, except for the last ones
(outside any subdirectory), where I get lots of "tar: Skipping to next
header" errors, and a bunch of invalid gif and png files (button_bold.gif,
button_bold.png and so on).
I'm getting errors as well such as these with the english wiktionary image dump.
For example:
e/e6/Caster.png
pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
e/e7/Centranthus_ruber.jpg
And then, as the other poster mentioned:
button_math.gif
pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
button_math.png
pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
magnify-clip.png
Until it finally asks for the the 2nd volume and finishes with this:
button_italic.png
pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
pax: End of archive volume 1 reached
pax: ustar vol 1, 293 files, 15218688 bytes read, 0 bytes written.
ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required.
Ready for archive volume: 2
Input archive name or "." to quit pax.
Archive name > .
Quitting pax!
pax: Premature end of file on archive read
Thanks,
-drmike