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file-roller package

error reported when all top-level files in an archive are hidden (dot) files

Bug #81087 reported by Mark Edgington on 2007-01-23

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	file-roller (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: file-roller

To reproduce:
1) Create an archive containing, for example, a single directory ".test" (note the initial dot)
2) Right-click on the created archive in nautilus, and select "Extract Here"

An error is reported, presumably because the script which moves the files from within the temporary-extract directory uses a shell wildcard which doesn't match any files/directories if they are all hidden.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-02-01:

Thank you for your bug. That works fine on my feisty desktop. What version of Ubuntu do you use and what format? Could you copy the error from the dialog to the bug?

Changed in file-roller:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Mark Edgington (edgimar) wrote on 2007-02-07:

sample archive which exhibits problem Edit (116 bytes, application/x-tar)

The kernel is: 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

I have also the same results on amd64.

(Ubuntu 6.10 for both of the above)

I've attached a simple file which causes the problem to occur. It was created by simply creating a directory ".test", and creating an archive from it (i.e. "tar fcz tst.tgz .test" ).

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Mark Edgington (edgimar) wrote on 2007-02-07:

and the error from the dialog is:

mv: cannot stat `/home/edgimar/Desktop/tst.tgz_FILES/*': No such file or directory

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-02-07:

Confirmed on the example with the edgy package on feisty, upgrading to the feisty file-roller fixes the problem, closing the bug it has been fixed with the new version