unar and lsar fail to open RAR files

[Michael J Kaye]

Package: unar
Version: 1.1-2
Severity: normal

Using the simple test file found at http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/files/text-test.rar:

"unar text-test.rar" and "lsar text-test.rar" raise the error:

"text-test.rar: RAR
Archive parsing failed! (Unknown error.)"

unar on my Squeeze desktop happily extracted the above archive.

I'm running XBian. The unar package has come from the Raspbian repo.

reportbug output:

Debian Release: 7.0
Architecture: armhf (armv6l)

Kernel: Linux 3.6.11+ (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages unar depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.10
ii gnustep-base-runtime 1.22.1-4
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4
ii libc6 2.13-37+rpi1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5+rpi1
ii libgnustep-base1.22 1.22.1-4
ii libicu48 4.8.1.1-12
ii libobjc3 4.6.3-14+rpi1
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1e-2+rpi1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5+rpi1
ii libwavpack1 4.60.1-3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

unar recommends no packages.

unar suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[peter green (plugwash)]

Ok some testing of this in other environments

debian wheezy i368: works
debian wheezy armel: fails
debian wheezy armhf: fails
debian jessie armel: fails
debian jessie armhf:
raspbian jessie: fails

Time to report this to debian

[peter green (plugwash)]

Ok, testing has revealed it doesn't happen on every system but we are struggling to narrow down the trigger.

If you are still experiancing the bug can you tell me exactly what kernel version you are using?

[Michael J Kaye (mjkaye)]

On 05/05/14 23:41, peter green wrote:
> Ok, testing has revealed it doesn't happen on every system but we are
> struggling to narrow down the trigger.
>
> If you are still experiancing the bug can you tell me exactly what
> kernel version you are using?

I can confirm that both lsar and unar are still unable to open RAR
files. I am using kernel version "3.12.7+".

> "unar text-test.rar" and "lsar text-test.rar" raise the error:
>
> "text-test.rar: RAR
> Archive parsing failed! (Unknown error.)"

The error message now reported is "unar: symbol lookup error: unar:
undefined symbol: main". s/unar/lsar/ when I try lsar.

Thanks for looking into this.

Regards,
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[Diederik (didi-debian)]

I tried to reproduce this and got some interesting result.

Raspbian Jessie on a Pi 2: works
Raspbian Jessie on a Pi 1B: works
Raspbian Wheezy on a Pi 1B: does NOT work

And the error I then got was the same as mjkaye:
unar: symbol lookup error: unar: undefined symbol: main

Then I tried 'unar --version' and got the same error, but the version on the Pi 2 does work and returns 'v1.8'

Then I downloaded Debian's armel version, extracted 'unar' and 'lsar' and copied that to /usr/bin/ on my Pi 1B.
Then did 'unar --version' and got 'Unknown option --version.' but not a crash and 'unar text-test.rar' completed successfully.

HTH