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This problem appears to have spontaneously arisen for me in 14.4.

I am using the following version of file-roller to manage archives of an
SVN code base:

$ apt-cache policy file-roller
file-roller:
  Installed: 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

This application has suddenly decided to display the "An error occurred
when extracting files" dialogue when accessing any of my archives - some
dating back to July. I have tried copies of my archives from multiple
media, and they all appear to have the same problem.

More specifically, there is at least one file (/svn/db/write-lock) in
this code base that has the problem when I extract files manually. It is
zero bytes in length and displays a lock icon along with every other
file - I conclude this is because, like all the other files, it would be
encrypted if it contained any data.

Hence, my problem appears to be a problem with the Archive Manager
itself, and may have arisen from changes consequent to my last software
update.

I try to unzip an archive from the command line and get the following:

$ unzip 2015-10-18.zip -d ~
Archive:  2015-10-18.zip
   creating: /home/owen/svn/
[2015-10-18.zip] svn/format password: 
 extracting: /home/owen/svn/format   
  inflating: /home/owen/svn/README.txt  
   creating: /home/owen/svn/db/
 extracting: /home/owen/svn/db/current  
 extracting: /home/owen/svn/db/format  

  error:  invalid compressed data to inflate

I can extract the archive without incident on an old windows machine and
have put comments about my problem to the Ubuntu forums, but have yet to
receive an answer that would reasonably accord with the problem I am
experiencing.

I am perhaps just a little anxious, but relieved somewhat that I can
still access my archives from another computer. Help would be much
appreciated.

** Affects: file-roller (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment
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Archive Manager has spontaneously stopped working on all archives.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1513293
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