tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now - linux

Question

when I untar doctrine
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 660252 2010-10-16 23:06 Doctrine-1.2.0.tgz
I always get this error messages
root#X100e:/usr/local/lib/Doctrine/stable# tar -xvzf Doctrine-1.2.0.tgz
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Doctrine-1.2.0/tests/ViewTestCase.php
Doctrine-1.2.0/CHANGELOG
gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
Doctrine-1.2.0/COPYRIGHT
Doctrine-1.2.0/LICENSE
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
The untar operation works, but I always get this error messages.
Any clues what I do wrong?

Answer 1

I would try to unzip and untar separately and see what happens:
mv Doctrine-1.2.0.tgz Doctrine-1.2.0.tar.gz
gunzip Doctrine-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar xf Doctrine-1.2.0.tar

Answer 2

It's possible your tar file is not zipped. I just had this same error, but all I had was a plain old tar file. So try just removing the z from your flags. The z flag unzips your tar file as well as whatever other commands you requested with other flags. i.e. try:
tar -xvf Doctrine-1.2.0.tgz
Notice I removed the z from -xvzf

Answer 3

If you got "Error is not recoverable: exiting now" You might have specified incorrect path references.
[me#host ~]$ tar -xvf nameOfMyTar.tar -C /someSubDirectory/
tar: /someSubDirectory: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[me#host ~]$
Make sure you provide correct relative or absolute directory references e.g.:
[me#host ~]$ tar -xvf ./nameOfMyTar.tar -C ./someSubDirectory/
./foo/
./bar/
[me#host ~]$

Answer 4

Try to get your archive using wget, I had the same issue when I was downloading archive through browser. Than I just copy archive link and in terminal use the command:
wget http://PATH_TO_ARCHIVE

Answer 5

The problem is that you do not have bzip2 installed. The tar program relies upon this external program to do compression.
For installing bzip2, it depends on the system you are using. For example, with Ubuntu that would be on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install bzip2
The GNU tar program does not know how to compress an existing file such as user-logs.tar (bzip2 does that). The tar program can use external compression programs gzip, bzip2, xz by opening a pipe to those programs, sending a tar archive via the pipe to the compression utility, which compresses the data which it reads from tar and writes the result to the filename which the tar program specifies.
Alternatively, the tar and compression utility could be the same program. BSD tar does its compression using lib archive (they're not really distinct except in name).

Answer 6

use sudo
sudo tar -zxvf xxxxxxxxx.tar.gz

Answer 7

Error messages
Easy way to fix this issue
First Remove files
Download file again
Extract file again ( tar -xzvf(or -xvf) FreeFileSync**.tar.gz

Answer 8

Had the same error code:
tar -xvfz processed.json.gz
tar: z: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Turned out the file had the .gz extension but wasn't compressed. Just removed the .gz and opened it.