I would hazard a guess that your bz2 unzip app does not handle multistream files in an appropriate way, Wurgl. The multistream files consist of several bzip2-compressed files concatenated together; see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/Dump_format#Multistream_dumps for details.  Try downloading the entire file via curl, and then look into the question of the bzip app issues separately. Maybe it will turn out that you are encountering some other problem. But first, see if you can download the entire file and get its hash to check out.

Ariel

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:15 PM Xabriel Collazo Mojica <xcollazo@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Gerhad: Thanks for the extra checks!

Wolfgang: I can confirm Gerhad's findings. The file appears correct, and ends with the right footer.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:50 AM Gerhard Gonter <ggonter@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 5:03 PM Wurgl <heisewurgl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I am having some unexpected messages, so I tried the following:
>
> curl -s https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/latest/wikidatawiki-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 | bzip2 -d | tail
>
> an got this:
>
> bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
>         perhaps it is corrupted?  *Possible* reason follows.
> bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>         Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
>
> It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.

The file I received was fine and the sha1sum matches that of
wikidatawiki-20240101-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 mention in
the posting of Xabriel Collazo Mojica:

--- 8< ---
$ sha1sum wikidatawiki-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2
1be753ba90e0390c8b65f9b80b08015922da12f1
wikidatawiki-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2
--- >8 ---

bunzip2 did not report any problem, however, my first attempt to
decompress ended with a full disk after more that 2.3 TB of xml.

The second attempt
--- 8< ---
$  bunzip2 -cv wikidatawiki-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2
| tail -n 10000 >
wikidatawiki-latest-pages-articles-multistream_tail_-n_10000.xml
  wikidatawiki-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2: done
--- >8 ---

resulted in nice XML fragment which ends with
--- 8< ---
  <page>
    <title>Q124069752</title>
    <ns>0</ns>
    <id>118244259</id>
    <revision>
      <id>2042727399</id>
      <parentid>2042727216</parentid>
      <timestamp>2024-01-01T20:37:28Z</timestamp>
      <contributor>
        <username>Kalepom</username>
        <id>1900170</id>
      </contributor>
      <comment>/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2789]]:
[[Q16506931]]</comment>
      <model>wikibase-item</model>
      <format>application/json</format>
      <text bytes="2535" xml:space="preserve">...</text>
      <sha1>9gw926vh84k1b5h6wnuvlvnd2zc3a9b</sha1>
    </revision>
  </page>
</mediawiki>
--- >8 ---

So, I assume, your curl did not return the full 142 GB of
wikidatawiki-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 .

P.S.: I'll start a new bunzip2 to a larger scratch disk just to find
out, how big this xml file really is.

regards, Gerhard
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