[hobbit] AIX Hobbit Client Update - Tar Error

[Stef Coene]

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Kapildev Khemraj wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hobbit newbie here.  I am having issues with the clientupdate on some AIX
> systems.  Some of the AIX systems have the following error message in
> hobbitclient.log:
>
> /opt/freeware/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> /opt/freeware/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 2007-10-03 19:02:14 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 512
>
> The clientupdate is working on other AIX boxes.  This is occurring on some
> AIX 5.2 and 5.3.  The tar that is used to update with is good because
> another AIX box is successfully updating with it.  I tried re-creating the
> tar, but that did not help.
>
> Any insight on this will be greatly appreciated.
I see you use the gnu tar to unpack the tar file.  Maybe the other boxes are 
using the AIX tar ?
I remember vagely that there was a problem with tar+hobbit+aix ...


Stef