gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

 

While uncompressing the following file, I received below errors.

$ tar -xzf OVM_EL5U3_X86_ORACLE10G_SIEBEL8006ENU_SIA_PVM.tgz.1of2

 

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

 

 

Solution:

I fixed the issue with uncompressing both the files altogether, doing them separately was causing the error.

 

[root@vmserver seed_pool]# cat OVM_EL5U3_X86_ORACLE10G_SIEBEL8006ENU_SIA_PVM.tgz.1of2 OVM_EL5U3_X86_ORACLE10G_SIEBEL8006ENU_SIA_PVM.tgz.2of2 | tar -xzvf -

OVM_EL5U3_X86_ORACLE10G_SIEBEL8006ENU_SIA_PVM/

OVM_EL5U3_X86_ORACLE10G_SIEBEL8006ENU_SIA_PVM/System.img

OVM_EL5U3_X86_ORACLE10G_SIEBEL8006ENU_SIA_PVM/vm.cfg

OVM_EL5U3_X86_ORACLE10G_SIEBEL8006ENU_SIA_PVM/oracle10g_x86_asm.img