pbzip2 -cd data.bz2: ERROR during BZ2_bzDecompress - failure exit code: ret=-4

[Tomas Mozes]

This happens on a specific file (not in general of course).

# pbzip2 -p6 -dc data.bz2 > /dev/null
pbzip2: *ERROR during BZ2_bzDecompress - failure exit code: ret=-4; block=82551; seq=-1; isLastInSeq=1; avail_in=0
Terminator thread: premature exit requested - quitting...

# echo $?
1

It can be unpacked with bzip2. Tested with pbzip2 1.1.12 and 1.1.13, on two separate machines.

[drink (martin-espinoza)]

I am also experiencing this bug. I am also resorting to bzip2 to decompress my fairly large file. In my case it was while piping the file through pv, pbzip2 -d, and into a block device. It happened twice on different blocks.

# pv < /mnt/Seagate/win7backup.dd.bz2 | pbzip2 -d > /dev/disk/by-id/(elided)
pbzip2: *ERROR during BZ2_bzDecompress - failure exit code: ret=-4; block=294363; seq=-1; isLastInSeq=1; avail_in=6
Terminator thread: premature exit requested - quitting...

# pv < win7backup.dd.bz2 | pbzip2 -d > /dev/disk/by-id/(elided)
pbzip2: *ERROR during BZ2_bzDecompress - failure exit code: ret=-4; block=284725; seq=-1; isLastInSeq=1; avail_in=10
Terminator thread: premature exit requested - quitting...