My installation started having this problem a while go. Nothing will unzip in portage. Because of this, this system hasn't been updated in many months, and trying to update both gzip and tar result in errors in decompressing those files.
Perhaps the only solutions is to re-install?
Thanks for any pointers.
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>>> Emerging (1 of 593) sys-libs/glibc-2.41-r5::gentoo
* glibc-2.41.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
* glibc-2.41-patches-7.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
* Checking whether python3_13 is suitable ...
* dev-lang/python:3.13 ... [ ok ]
* Using python3.13 to build (via PYTHON_COMPAT iteration)
>>> Unpacking source...
* Checking general environment sanity.
* Performing simple compile test for ABI=amd64 ...
make -j24 -l25 glibc-test
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -m64 -O2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs -O2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs glibc-test.c -o glibc-test [ ok ]
* Checking if the system can execute 32-bit binaries ... [ ok ]
* Checking running kernel version (6.6.74-gentoo-dist >= 3.2.0) ... [ ok ]
* Checking linux-headers version (6.12.0 >= 3.2.0) ... [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking glibc-2.41.tar.xz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.41-r5/work
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
* ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.41-r5::gentoo failed (unpack phase):
* unpack: failure unpacking glibc-2.41.tar.xz
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 136: Called src_unpack
* environment, line 3312: Called unpack 'glibc-2.41.tar.xz'
* phase-helpers.sh, line 478: Called __unpack_tar 'xz -T24 -d'
* phase-helpers.sh, line 391: Called __assert_sigpipe_ok 'unpack: failure unpacking glibc-2.41.tar.xz'
* isolated-functions.sh, line 41: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* [[ ${x} -ne 0 && ${x} -ne ${PORTAGE_SIGPIPE_STATUS:-141} ]] && die "$@"
Output of: emerge --info '=sys-libs/glibc-2.41-r5::gentoo'
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Portage 3.0.67 (python 3.12.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-14, glibc-2.40-r8, 6.6.74-gentoo-dist x86_64)
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System Settings
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System uname: Linux-6.6.74-gentoo-dist-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_X5690_@_3.47GHz-with-glibc2.40
KiB Mem: 98922980 total, 83450164 free
KiB Swap: 49151996 total, 49151996 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:05:00 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 78e6e7f91bf2a164d4d03625163c74484a628ef0
sh bash 5.2_p37
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.44 p1) 2.44.0
app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.8::gentoo
app-shells/bash: 5.2_p37::gentoo
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dev-build/automake: 1.17-r1::gentoo
dev-build/cmake: 3.31.5::gentoo
dev-build/libtool: 2.5.4::gentoo
dev-build/make: 4.4.1-r100::gentoo
dev-build/meson: 1.7.0::gentoo
dev-lang/perl: 5.40.0-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python: 3.12.9::gentoo, 3.13.2::gentoo
dev-lang/rust-bin: 1.84.1-r2::gentoo
llvm-core/clang: 19.1.7::gentoo
llvm-core/lld: 19.1.7::gentoo
llvm-core/llvm: 19.1.7::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.17::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc: 0.56::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.39::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils: 2.44::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.5.2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc: 14.2.1_p20241221::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.12.1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 6.12::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.40-r8::gentoo
Repositories:
gentoo
location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
sync-type: rsync
sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
priority: -1000
volatile: False
sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3
sync-rsync-extra-opts:
sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
Binary Repositories:
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS=""
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CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
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FCFLAGS=""
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