tar error unrecoverable?

[Curt Tresenriter]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:48:55 -0600
Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:53:38 -0600
> Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to unpack a tar.bz2 file that is failing.
> > 
> > Tried a couple GUI methods then at the command line I said
> > tar -xjf 1t0zip.tar.bz2
> > 
> > After several minutes it returned:
> > 
> > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> > bzip2: Input/output error
> > 	Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
> > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> > 
> > Am I out of luck or is there some way to fix this?
> > 
> 
> bzip2recover gives:
> bzip2recover: I/O error reading `1t0zip.tar.bz2', possible reason
> follows. bzip2recover: Input/output error
> bzip2recover: warning: output file(s) may be incomplete.
> 
> Nothing is a search was relevant to my situation so far.
> 

I meant to say "..in a search..."

A second run at bzip2recover has passed the previous block where it
choked the first time. Still running but maybe it's resolved.