Bug 28128

Summary:	xarchiver does not recognize Mageia-8-rc-i586.iso as a supported format
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Nicolas Salguero <nicolas.salguero>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, mageia
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	8rc1
Target Milestone:	Mageia 8
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	xarchiver-0.5.4.16-1.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ben McMonagle 2021-01-17 04:41:17 CET

Description of problem:attempting to view the contents of Mageia-8-rc-i586.iso returns:
cannot open file ~/Mageia-8-rc-i586.iso
archive format not supported.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ISO:  Mageia-8-rc-i586.iso
DATE: Wed 13 Jan 2021 11:27:14 PM CET

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install LXDE from above .iso
2.invoke xarchiver to view contents of above .iso 
3.note popup

Ben McMonagle 2021-01-17 04:41:39 CET

Keywords: (none) => 8rc1
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 8

Ben McMonagle 2021-01-17 04:43:29 CET

Hardware: i586 => All

Comment 1 Ben McMonagle 2021-01-17 04:44:03 CET

same with x86_64 install

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2021-01-17 11:05:00 CET

(In reply to ben mcmonagle from comment #1)
> same with x86_64 install
On my 64-bit system, xarchiver *does* recognise & display the contents of on-disc 64-bit ISOs; I tried Classic & Live ones - but neither recent.
Another problem re 32-bit ISOs?

Ben, can you say whether xarchiver recognises 64-bit ISO files?

CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Source RPM: xarchiver-0.5.4.16-1.mga8 => xarchiver-0.5.4.16-1.mga8.src.rpm

Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2021-01-17 11:25:02 CET

Hybrid ISOs are a bit unusual.
Martin knows more.

CC: (none) => fri, mageia

Comment 4 Lewis Smith 2021-01-17 11:37:20 CET

Thanks for that contribution.

Assigning to NicolasS for 'xarchiver'.

Assignee: bugsquad => nicolas.salguero
CC: lewyssmith => (none)

Comment 5 Martin Whitaker 2021-01-18 00:03:23 CET

Standard Linux utilities can handle the file format:

% file Mageia-8-rc-i586.iso
Mageia-8-rc-i586.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data (DOS/MBR boot sector) 'Mageia-8-rc-i586' (bootable)
% sudo mount Mageia-8-rc-i586.iso /mnt
mount: /mnt: WARNING: source write-protected, mounted read-only.
% ls /mnt
autorun.inf  boot/  boot.catalog  DATE.txt  dosutils/  EFI/  i586/

Comment 6 Nicolas Salguero 2021-01-18 12:19:24 CET

(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #2)
> On my 64-bit system, xarchiver *does* recognise & display the contents of
> on-disc 64-bit ISOs; I tried Classic & Live ones - but neither recent.
> Another problem re 32-bit ISOs?

Hi,

As far as I remember, xarchiver never allowed me to view the content of an ISO, neither in current version nor in any previous one, even in x86_64.  For me, xarchiver simply does not handle ISO files.  How did you achieve that?

Best regards,

Nico.

Comment 7 Thomas Backlund 2021-02-16 17:00:36 CET

maybe xarchiver needs cdrkit-isotools installed to list iso contents ?

for example mc is relying on that to show contents