lxqt-archiver fails to add new files to empty .tar archive

[Lyn Perrine]

To reproduce use lxqt-archiver to create a new empty foo.tar by file new and then add edit add file. Then adding any file will result in lxqt-archiver not finding the archive and give the result file not found.

lxqt-archiver:
  Installed: 0.3.0-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.3.0-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.0-2ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu Hirsute Hippo (development branch)
Release: 21.04

I expected to be able to add files to a new .tar archive and then instead I get an error not being able to add files and am unable to reload the archive.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: lxqt-archiver 0.3.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.10.0-14.15-generic 5.10.11
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu59
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Fri Mar 5 15:07:35 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-05 (394 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20191226)
RebootRequiredPkgs:
 dbus
 dbus
 network-manager
SourcePackage: lxqt-archiver
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-01-23 (41 days ago)

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Lubuntu daily QA-test (live) on
- hp 8200 elite sff (i5-2400, 8gb, nvidia quadro 600)

I saw @lynorian's comment on #lubuntu-devel, so

- opened `pcmanfm-qt` & navigated to an installed directory (lubuntu 20.04 /home/guiverc/ directory)

- selected a text file (`calamares-settings-ubuntu_20.04.2.dsc`)
- right click & selected "compress"
(a dialog here that selected the type & location for result, .tar.gz but I didn't care; did it for variations I tried too)

It opens a PROGRESS window and gets to 50%
"Adding file /home/lubuntu"

then

"ERROR
Failed to execute the command (OK)"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1917960

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

same session as my comment #2
(note I'd not use a GUI to do this, so cannot rule out errors on my behalf)

- created a new archive "archive.test.tar.gz" using lxqt-archiver
- when I try to add a text file (this time 'ubuntu_bugs-my-responses.txt') I again get two error boxes open up

Error: Failed to execute the command
Error: Archive not found

Note this is a closer test to what @lynorian did

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

I just repeated comment #5 but with lxqt-archiver opened at a terminal so I could get messages (nothing was evident in /var/crash or dmesg) and this time no issues??

lubuntu@lubuntu:/media/lubuntu/lubuntu/home/guiverc$ lxqt-archiver
Icon theme "elementary" not found.
src_dir: /media/lubuntu/lubuntu/home/guiverc, dst: /
final: /home/lubuntu/.fr-7QvS7s/archive.test.tar.gz -> /home/lubuntu/archive.test.tar.gz, 0
lubuntu@lubuntu:/media/lubuntu/lubuntu/home/guiverc$ lxqt-archiver

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

I repeated #5 a few times without issue, including to different archive.test2.tar.gz & different source files... without issue??

rebooted the live session so a new environment again and tried again.. no issues??? you

I can no-longer create issue in comment #5 so maybe my steps are incomplete, or something is missing sorry.

I've had issues yes (twice), but also not had issues too???