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squashfs package

lzma support breaks unsquashfs endian swap

Bug #223594 reported by Tv on 2008-04-28

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	squashfs (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

$ unsquashfs -s rootfs.bin
Reading a different endian SQUASHFS filesystem on rootfs.bin
Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on rootfs.bin

adding the attached patch makes it work:

$ unsquashfs -s rootfs.bin
Reading a different endian SQUASHFS filesystem on rootfs.bin
Found a valid big endian SQUASHFS 2:1 superblock on rootfs.bin.
Creation or last append time Fri Mar 21 15:24:01 2008
Filesystem is not exportable via NFS
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Tv (tv42) wrote on 2008-04-28:

#1

00-sqlzma-tools-bugfix-endianness.patch Edit (398 bytes, text/plain)

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote on 2008-06-22:

#2

Marking as confirmed, though this could do with more investigation

Changed in squashfs:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Tv (tv42) wrote on 2008-06-22:

#3

Isn't the bug pretty obvious? The case mistakenly fell through to the default case, and aborted with error, even if it knew how to handle the option.

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steubens (steubens) wrote on 2010-09-06:

#4

this is trivial; why has it languished since 2008?

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steubens (steubens) wrote on 2010-09-06:

#5

updated patch from 2008 that i applied to my own package Edit (344 bytes, text/plain)

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steubens (steubens) wrote on 2010-09-06:

#6

ignore that patch; its still broke, need to look closer, sigh

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