As I don't use GUI for archive extraction much, I don't know since when this error I am getting:
An error occurred while loading the archive.
This error I get while trying to open an ordinary Zip and / or 7z archives, but I care only about Zip in this question.
I am able to open tar.bz2 and tar.gz files, though.
As a side note: This is particularly annoying as I started using Thunderbird for mail and so I intend to open all attachments in GUI.
OS and DE: Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 64-bit.
Version of Archive manager for GNOME:
/usr/bin/file-roller --version
file-roller 3.16.5, Copyright © 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Example:
A file downloaded from GitHub from this page as Zip: TrueColour.md
For convenience renamed to truecolor.zip
.
file truecolor.zip
says it is an ordinary Zip archive:
truecolor.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
file-roller truecolor.zip
run from terminal says the above error message with no output to the terminal.
Sure though, I am able to decompress it with:
unzip truecolor.zip
with output:
Archive: truecolor.zip f8e6e08a0f0d3ad09e599a4f17edc010d38e4ec8 creating: 8346728-f8e6e08a0f0d3ad09e599a4f17edc010d38e4ec8/ inflating: 8346728-f8e6e08a0f0d3ad09e599a4f17edc010d38e4ec8/TrueColour.md
EDIT1:
I have managed to get some, possibly useful, debug info using:
strace -t -f file-roller truecolor.zip 2> fileroller-open-zip-strace
As it is rather lengthy, it won't fit into Pastebin, so I have compressed it, SHA-256 hash follows:
4f09bc1f16c0e618cfd6937946db23a18be8e5e1fb1b8d4930ead49af5e77abb
You may download it from my hosting:
https://www.vlastimilburian.cz/fileroller-open-zip-strace.bz2
The above file has been deleted.
If someone knows what to look for in the strace
's output, I am sure he / she would find the relevant part, but I sadly don't know what to look for.
EDIT2:
Latest available version on GitHub, compiled:
./file-roller --version
file-roller 3.22.2, Copyright © 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
run from terminal:
./file-roller ~/Downloads/truecolor.zip
shows the very same error message:
An error occurred while loading the archive.