unhelpful error message "Parsing filters is unsupported."

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

Steps to reproduce:

  1. download http://www.speedlink.com/support/bin/sl-8861-b-cd-content-02-26-10.zip
  2. try to extract the `.iso` file into `/tmp/`

The error message `Parsing filters is unsupported.` doesn't provide any information and doesn't explain if something and what is wrong and thus needs to be replaced by a message which does that.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: file-roller 3.16.4-1ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-040300-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Dec 19 02:11:40 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-12 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: file-roller
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Martin Palenik (slovenskyweb)]

I have the issue. The problem is I am unable to extract an archive with files of a particular format. The problematic formats are TIFF and PDF. However, one can open the other files inside the archive (without extraction). My version is 15.10 with all updates.

[Martin Palenik (slovenskyweb)]

The archive in question was extracted successfully, however, it does NOT contain an ISO file not a /tmp folder.

[Prasun Jajodia (prasunjajodia)]

I was trying to extract a rar file when this showed up..
Installing unrar from the command line fixed the issue

[Thomas A. F. Thorne (tafthorne)]

The Archive Manager GUI does not seem to handle some files that it possibly should. It seems that for some files it is necessary to instead install unrar and then uncompress these files from the command line with `uunrar x <name_of_rar_file>`

[Ari Torres (kuvanito)]

I just had this very same problem,after downloading Mac OS Sierra 6.0GB Archive Manager gave me the same error as described here, I went and installed unrar and problem solved.
sudo apt-get install unrar

Note: I am running a clean install of Ubuntu 16.10 daily build (Yakety Yak)

[Ville Ranki (ville-ranki)]

Still happening today on up to data Ubuntu 19.10. RAR archive in this case.