Extracting a tar ball fails with "Cannot open: Not a directory"

Question

I am trying to extract an tarball, I keep getting this error

tar: mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/bp101wx1_n/bp101wx1_n.c: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/hsd070idw1/hsd070idw1.c: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/nt35582/nt35582.c: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/r63311_fhd_dsi_vdo_sharp/r63311_fhd_dsi_vdo_sharp.c: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/otm9608_wvga_dsi_cmd/otm9608_wvga_dsi_cmd.c: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/lg4571/lg4571.c: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/hx8363b_wvga_dsi_cmd/hx8363b_wvga_dsi_cmd.c: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/lg4573b_wvga_dsi_vdo_lh430mv1/lg4573b_wvga_dsi_vdo_lh430mv1.c: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

The original file was a .zip file that contained a .tar.gz file, so I first used unzip then I used pigz with the -d option to create the tar file.

I extracted the tar file using tar with xf option.

Extracting the tar.gz using the tar xzf also doesn't work :/

Using 7za I get

can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/bm8578/bm8578.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/nt35565_qhd_dsi_cmd/nt35565_qhd_dsi_cmd.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/spfd5461a/spfd5461a.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/bp101wx1_n/bp101wx1_n.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/hsd070idw1/hsd070idw1.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/nt35582/nt35582.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/r63311_fhd_dsi_vdo_sharp/r63311_fhd_dsi_vdo_sharp.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/otm9608_wvga_dsi_cmd/otm9608_wvga_dsi_cmd.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/lg4571/lg4571.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/hx8363b_wvga_dsi_cmd/hx8363b_wvga_dsi_cmd.c
can not open output file mediatek/custom/common/lk/lcm/lg4573b_wvga_dsi_vdo_lh430mv1/lg4573b_wvga_dsi_vdo_lh430mv1.c

Sub items Errors: 3869

The tar file is 3.8 GB if that matters

The file might be corrupted, use a checksum or similar to verify. — kiri, Oct 01 '13 at 09:54
I'm sure it's corrupted, check with `gzip -t` the file. It will tell, also you might to know the bytes count if they don't fit with the servers. — Braiam, Oct 02 '13 at 00:17
The file is not corrupted, it extracts in Windows using WinRaR,(7zip doesn't extract it). — HackToHell, Oct 02 '13 at 03:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 23 '14 at 21:00

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According to here you can do tar -xvzf location.tar.gz. Try that

edited Dec 23 '14 at 21:00

David Foerster

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answered Oct 01 '13 at 07:40

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Doesn't work, tried it – HackToHell Oct 01 '13 at 07:52
And it's a tar.gz not tar? – Oct 01 '13 at 08:02
yes, tried with the tar.gz too – HackToHell Oct 01 '13 at 09:04
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Just a note that the order of the options is importatnt. `tar -xvfz` will throw a `cannot open: no such file or directory` but `tar -xvzf` will work. – Elijah Lynn Oct 16 '13 at 20:32

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 09 '17 at 20:48

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It might be that the name of the directory you are extracting is the same as the file you are extracting, try to rename the archive file before extracting.

It worked for me when I had a similar problem.

edited Mar 09 '17 at 20:48

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answered Jul 21 '16 at 09:32

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Extracting a tar ball fails with "Cannot open: Not a directory"

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