Re: problem with tar image containing more than 2.8 million files

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Michael Kelly <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 22:16:42 -0800
> 
> De-bugging with DBX indicates a problem in "stabstring.c" at line
> 4015 (unexpected character).  Is this a buffer over flow?  I cannot
> find the file "stabstring.c".

There's no such file in tar.  Perhaps it is some library that you've
linked to?  It could be buffer overflow, but it could be something else.
What does the stack backtrace look like?

>       Does anyone have any advice?

You might try a newer version of GNU tar to work around the problem.
It has some large-file fixes.

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz

You might also try compiling tar in 64-bit mode rather than 32-bit mode.