symlink error: File name too long

[Sören Brinkmann]

The unzip package show the behavior described in this Red Hat bugreport: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972427

The symptom is that under some circumstances, files become corrupted during extraction. This seems to be a common problem when downloading zipped snapshots of the Linux kernel from sites like github.com.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unzip 6.0-9ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.55-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 26 08:54:47 2014
Dependencies:
 gcc-4.9-base 4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1
 libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-5
 libc6 2.19-0ubuntu6.1
 libgcc1 1:4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1
 multiarch-support 2.19-0ubuntu6.1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-09 (655 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/csh
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: unzip
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-18 (129 days ago)

[Rodrigo Alvarez (rodrigo-alvarez-i)]

I too have been affected by this bug. In particular, when downloading the following file from github

In Ubuntu 14.04 (ARM-hf)
sudo apt-get install unzip
wget https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx/archive/xlnx_3.17.zip
unzip xlnx_3.17.zip

This results in some filenames becoming corrupt. For examples
ls linux-xlnx-xlnx_3.17/fs/f2fs/

Will show one filename with a corrupted name that has been replaced by a code segment.

[Dominik Viererbe (dviererbe)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-standard-support on Apri

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I could not replicate the reported behavior on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish).

$ wget https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/archive/refs/heads/rpi-3.9.y.zip
$ unzip rpi-3.9.y.zip

and

$ wget https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx/archive/xlnx_3.17.zip
$ unzip xlnx_3.17.zip
$ ls linux-xlnx-xlnx_3.17/fs/f2fs/

worked as expected

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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