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Unpacking Oracle cpio for AIX

When extracting a cpio file with Oracle software from OTN on AIX you might encounter the following problem:

oracle@mymachine-app:/install/oracle/MRCA>cpio -idmv < ../as_ibm_aix_mrca_101203_disk1.cpio


cpio: 0511-903 Out of phase!
cpio attempting to continue...


cpio: 0511-904 skipping 642010 bytes to get back in phase!
One or more files lost and the previous file is possibly corrupt!

Segmentation fault

The solution is to use the option -idcmv
oracle@mymachine-app:/install/oracle/MRCA>cpio -idcmv < ../as_ibm_aix_mrca_101203_disk1.cpio


c
Reads and writes header information in ASCII character form. If a
cpio archive was created using the c flag, it must be extracted
with c flag.
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Unknown said…
-idcmv that comment saved me some time. I was about to download again
6:26 PM
Chris said…
many thanks for your solution, save me lots of time
3:19 AM
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1:28 AM
Unknown said…
Thanks, you saved me from decompressing it on solaris and ftping it back to the AIX server. Cheers :D
1:29 AM
Chandrasekar Sivasamy said…
Thank you so much
1:02 PM
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