Waterfox archive 2022.02 corrupted?

[mwat56]

Describe the bug

I tried to unpack waterfox-classic-2022.02.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 but got errors.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. download the archive
2. run tar -xvf <archivename>
3. Watch the screen

4. See:

   [… many more files extracted …]
   waterfox-classic/libfreeblpriv3.chk
   waterfox-classic/waterfox-bin
   
   bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing.
           Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
   
   It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
   You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
   
   You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
   data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
   
   tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
   tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
   tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

   Running tar -tvvf <archivename> produces the same error.

Expected behavior

Extraction of the archive's contents without errors.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: GNU/Linux
• Version "Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS"

Additional context

Any ideas, please?

[mwat56]

I downloaded the archive again:

matthias@Nele:~/Downloads$ stat waterfox-classic-2022.02.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2~ ;stat waterfox-classic-2022.02.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 
  File: waterfox-classic-2022.02.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2~
  Size: 96171971        Blocks: 187848     IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 821h/2081d      Inode: 42347049    Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/matthias)   Gid: ( 1000/matthias)
Access: 2022-02-28 21:08:39.239780174 +0100
Modify: 2022-02-28 21:08:39.699774923 +0100
Change: 2022-02-28 22:09:36.903646094 +0100
 Birth: -
  File: waterfox-classic-2022.02.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
  Size: 96171971        Blocks: 187848     IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 821h/2081d      Inode: 42347050    Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/matthias)   Gid: ( 1000/matthias)
Access: 2022-02-28 22:10:56.002901818 +0100
Modify: 2022-02-28 22:10:56.494897133 +0100
Change: 2022-02-28 22:10:56.510896981 +0100
 Birth: -

So both files seem identical. However … Trying to extract the files from the archive this time works without any errors!

Now I did a recursive diff between the both directories (from the broken archive and the new one. That produced a diff file of about 21KB with ~600 lines (which for one reason or another I can't attach, neither as .diff nor as .txt or .gz: "Something went really wrong, and we can't process that file.").

Anyway, my personal problem seems to be fixed, but the question, why I got a corrupted archive in the first place, still remains mysterious …

[mwat56]

Hmm, after several unsuccessful attempts I checked my JavaScript/NoScript settings and allowed objects-origin.githubusercontent.com and what happens?

The waterfox-classic-2022.02.en-US.diff.gz upload suddenly worked!

Don't you just hate it when some JS-coders reinvent functionality that's been part of HTML for ages (like file upload)?

Anyway, the .diff file shows the differences between the corrupted and the working WaterFox archive.

[hawkeye116477]

There is checksum file available, so you can use it to verify if download was successful.

[timur-g]

Please close this.