unsquashfs fails with error: "failed to read fragment table"

[Brice Arnould]

As said in the linked Debian bug :
Using unsquashfs on a v4 squashfs file system fails with the following error message:
sudo unsquashfs -l rootfs
Parallel unsquashfs: Using 8 processors
FATAL ERROR aborting: failed to read fragment table

Confirmation that rootfs is indeed a v4 squashfs file system:
file rootfs rootfs: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 4.0, 18539171071 bytes, 7315 inodes, blocksize: 4 bytes, created: Sun Feb 16 15:30:08 2014

This bug has been fixed in Gentoo and Debian.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 8 16:14:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: squashfs-tools 1:4.0-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: squashfs
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

The fix for this is here: http://squashfs.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squashfs/squashfs/squashfs-tools/unsquash-3.c?r1=1.10&r2=1.11 as reported in RedHat's bugzilla.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

I don't know why I can't figure out how to link to the RH BZ but here's the URL:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523504

Can we get an SRU now that there are three different fixes to this bug?