Open Source Development

1.33 seems to work and 1.35 does not

sudo dnf install tar-1.33-1.ppc seems to fix my issue

Recursive archiving of directories is the default behaviour of tar and it seems to be working.
Tried the following with tar 1.35,

# ls -R test
test:
ABOUT-NLS  AUTHORS  COPYING  build-aux  libwget

test/build-aux:
ar-lib  compile  config.guess  config.rpath  config.sub  install-sh  ltmain.sh

test/libwget:
Makefile.am  Makefile.in  atom_url.c  bar.c  base64.c  net.c  printf.c  thread.c

# tar -cvf test.tar.gz test
test/
test/ABOUT-NLS
test/AUTHORS
test/COPYING
test/build-aux/
test/build-aux/ar-lib
test/build-aux/compile
test/build-aux/config.guess
test/build-aux/config.rpath
test/build-aux/config.sub
test/build-aux/install-sh
test/build-aux/ltmain.sh
test/libwget/
test/libwget/Makefile.am
test/libwget/Makefile.in
test/libwget/atom_url.c
test/libwget/bar.c
test/libwget/base64.c
test/libwget/net.c
test/libwget/printf.c
test/libwget/thread.c

Is gtar a symbolic link to /opt/freeware/bin/tar in your case? 

pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~> dnf list tar
Last metadata expiration check: 22:47:18 ago on Wed Nov 20 07:30:18 EST 2024.
Installed Packages
tar.ppc                                               1.33-1                                               @AIX_Toolbox
Available Packages
tar.ppc                                               1.35-1                                               AIX_Toolbox 
[Errno 13] The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.: '/var/cache/dnf/expired_repos.json'
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~> oslevel -s
7300-02-02-2420


pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> ls dist
SNMP          csp  devuser  fop    install             lib     schema   ui
aixopenssl30  dev  docs     httpd  java_client.tar.gz  patrol  scripts
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> rm test.tar.gz 
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> which gtar
/usr/local/bin/gtar
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> ls -lart /usr/local/bin/gtar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 21 Jan 31  2024 /usr/local/bin/gtar -> /opt/freeware/bin/tar
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> ls -lart /opt/freeware/bin/tar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 6 Feb 26  2021 /opt/freeware/bin/tar -> tar_64
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> ls -lart /opt/freeware/bin/tar_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 647536 Feb 26  2021 /opt/freeware/bin/tar_64

pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> /opt/freeware/bin/tar -cvf test.tar.gz dist
dist/
dist/java_client.tar.gz
dist/SNMP/
dist/csp/
dist/ui/
dist/dev/
dist/devuser/
dist/docs/
dist/fop/
dist/httpd/
dist/install/
dist/install/misc/
dist/install/irislib/
dist/install/irislib/big/
dist/install/irislib/big/IRIS.DAT.gz
dist/install/enslib/
dist/install/enslib/big/
dist/install/enslib/big/IRIS.DAT.gz
dist/lib/
dist/patrol/
dist/schema/
dist/scripts/
dist/aixopenssl30/

pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~> sudo dnf update tar
Last metadata expiration check: 22:50:16 ago on Wed Nov 20 07:30:18 EST 2024.
Dependencies resolved.
=======================================================================================================================
 Package                  Architecture             Version                      Repository                        Size
=======================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 tar                      ppc                      1.35-1                       AIX_Toolbox                      1.5 M

Transaction Summary
=======================================================================================================================
Upgrade  1 Package

Total size: 1.5 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
[SKIPPED] tar-1.35-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm: Already downloaded                                                               
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                               1/1 
  Upgrading        : tar-1.35-1.ppc                                                                                1/2 
  Running scriptlet: tar-1.35-1.ppc                                                                                1/2 
  Running scriptlet: tar-1.33-1.ppc                                                                                2/2 
  Cleanup          : tar-1.33-1.ppc                                                                                2/2 
  Verifying        : tar-1.35-1.ppc                                                                                1/2 
  Verifying        : tar-1.33-1.ppc                                                                                2/2 

Upgraded:
  tar-1.35-1.ppc                                                                                                       

Complete!

pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> rm test.tar.gz
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> /opt/freeware/bin/tar -cvf test.tar.gz dist
dist/
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> ls -lart /opt/freeware/bin/tar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 6 Mar  6  2024 /opt/freeware/bin/tar -> tar_64
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> ls -lart /opt/freeware/bin/tar_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 653318 Mar  6  2024 /opt/freeware/bin/tar_64

Hi,

is this one system observation or are you seeing in multiple systems ?
If you have another AIX system, then let us know your observation.

Thanks
Ranjit

multiple systems - it originally happened on 72. But maybe our IT does similar things on boxes. Feel free to email me and set up a  debugging conf call.

okay.
1. let's compare the output of 1.33 and 1.35 under truss .
you can run like 'truss /opt/freeware/bin/tar -cvf test.tar.gz dist'

2. Also if you can take help from your IT team to figure out any file system corruption issues. 

Can you email me? first name . lastname intersystems.com.

testdir has directories test1 and test2

pmilosla@REMOTE@aix72rel4-1:~/testaix> /opt/freeware/bin/tar -cvf test.tar.gz testdir
testdir/
testdir/test1/
testdir/test2/

1.33:

testdir/kwrite(1, " t e s t d i r /", 8)                = 8

kwrite(1, "\n", 1)                              = 1
kfcntl(1, F_GETFL, 0x0000000000000008)          = 67110914
kopen(".", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)                = 5
kfcntl(5, F_GETFD, 0x0000000000000000)          = 0
kfcntl(5, F_SETFD, 0x0000000000000001)          = 0
fchdir(4)                                       = 0
statx("test1", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEF18, 176, 011)    = 0
fchdir(5)                                       = 0
close(5)                                        = 0
kopen(".", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)                = 5
kfcntl(5, F_GETFD, 0x0000000000000000)          = 0
kfcntl(5, F_SETFD, 0x0000000000000001)          = 0
fchdir(4)                                       = 0
kopen("test1", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 6
kfcntl(6, F_GETFD, 0x0000000000000000)          = 0
kfcntl(6, F_SETFD, 0x0000000000000001)          = 0
fchdir(5)                                       = 0
close(5)                                        = 0
fstatx(6, 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEF18, 176, 010)         = 0
kfcntl(6, F_DUPFD, 0x0000000000000000)          = 5
close(6)                                        = 0
kfcntl(5, F_DUPFD, 0x0000000000000000)          = 6
close(5)                                        = 0
kopen(".", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)                = 5
kfcntl(5, F_GETFD, 0x0000000000000000)          = 0
kfcntl(5, F_SETFD, 0x0000000000000001)          = 0
kfcntl(6, F_DUPFD, 0x0000000000000000)          = 7
close(6)                                        = 0
fchdir(7)                                       = 0
statx(".", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFE600, 176, 0)          = 0
kopen(".", O_RDONLY)                            = 6
getdirent(6, 0x0000000110046790, 4096)          = 48
lseek(6, 0, 0)                                  = 0
kfcntl(6, F_GETFD, 0x00000001100124D8)          = 0
kfcntl(6, F_SETFD, 0x0000000000000001)          = 0
fchdir(5)                                       = 0
close(7)                                        = 0
close(5)                                        = 0
getdirent(6, 0x0000000110046790, 4096)          = 48
getdirent(6, 0x0000000110046790, 4096)          = 0
testdir/test1/kwrite(1, " t e s t d i r / t e s t".., 14)       = 14

1.35:

kread(5, " s y s t e m : ! : 0 : r".., 4096)    = 0
kfcntl(5, 13, 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFE5D0)               = 0
kfcntl(5, F_GETFL, 0x0000000000000008)          = 67108864
close(5)                                        = 0
kioctl(1, 22528, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000) = 0
testdir/kwrite(1, " t e s t d i r /", 8)                = 8

kwrite(1, "\n", 1)                              = 1
kfcntl(1, F_GETFL, 0x0000000000000008)          = 67110914
fstatx(4, 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEEB0, 176, 0)           = 0
close(4)                                        = 0
kwrite(3, " t e s t d i r /\0\0\0\0".., 10240)  = 10240
close(3)                                        = 0
kfcntl(1, F_GETFL, 0x0000000000000008)          = 67110914
close(1)                                        = 0
close(2)                                        = 0
checkpnt_block(0x0000000000000000, 17)          = 0
checkpnt_block(0x0000000000000000, 17)          = 0
checkpnt_block(0x0000000000000000, 18)          = 0
checkpnt_block(0x0000000000000000, 18)          = 0
_exit(0)

tar command could be sensitive to some of the environment settings. 
What is the output of "env" and "locale" ? 

pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> env
SHELL=/bin/bash
LC__FASTMSG=true
ODMDIR=/etc/objrepos
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
CLCMD_PASSTHRU=1
AUTHSTATE=compat
PWD=/nethome/pmilosla/testaix
LOGNAME=pmilosla
LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x80000000@DSA
TZ=America/New_York
HOME=/nethome/pmilosla
LANG=en_US

TERM=xterm-256color
USER=pmilosla
LOGIN=pmilosla
SHLVL=1
LOCPATH=/usr/lib/nls/loc
YPBIND_MAXWAIT=10
MAILMSG=[YOU HAVE NEW MAIL]
PS1=\h AIX-powerpc \W$ 

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/IBM/xlC/16.1.0/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/java8_64/jre/bin:/usr/java8_64/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/freeware/sbin:/opt/freeware/bin:/opt/freeware/bin:/opt/IBM/openxlC/17.1.2/bin/

HOSTTYPE=rs6000
VENDOR=ibm
OSTYPE=aix
MACHTYPE=rs6000

NLSPATH=/usr/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N:/usr/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N.cat:/usr/lib/nls/msg/%l.%c/%N:/usr/lib/nls/msg/%l.%c/%N.cat
pmilosla@REMOTE@p9aixdev4-openxl:~/testaix> locale
LANG=en_US
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_ALL=

1.35 tars up files on / fine but not on network mounted /nethome.

Thanks  Philip for updates.
So as per your  findings, issue is w.r.t network mounted file system . We will try to reproduce/debug. 

Hi Philip

Tried tar with NFS mounted file system. I am not able to repro . It's working fine.

# tar -cvf testdir.tar.gz testdir
testdir/
testdir/dir1/
testdir/dir1/1
testdir/dir1/2
testdir/dir1/3
testdir/dir1/4
testdir/dir1/5
testdir/dir2/
testdir/dir2/7
testdir/dir2/8
testdir/dir2/9
testdir/dir2/10
testdir/dir2/11

Were you able to debug further in your systems?

It will be good if you list out the steps to reproduce your observation. 

Thanks
Ranjit