#501254 can list but extracting gets "Unsupported Method"

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p7zip-full
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p7zip
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7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio
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Date:
2025-03-14 14:51:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
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#501254#5
Date:
2008-10-06 00:47:05 UTC
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I have no idea of if I will ever be able to extract this file. Here we
see it lets me list it only.

$ firefox http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloadfile&dno=3451&type=manual
$ wget http://download6.msi.com.tw/files/downloads/mnu_exe/E6533v1.0.exe
$ 7z l E6533v1.0.exe
2001-12-04 09:48:56 ....A      3888887      2670654  6533v1.pdf
$  7z e E6533v1.0.exe
7-Zip  4.58 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Igor Pavlov  2008-05-05
p7zip Version 4.58 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)
Processing archive: E6533v1.0.exe
Extracting  6533v1.pdf     Unsupported Method
Sub items Errors: 1
#501254#10
Date:
2008-10-06 00:53:07 UTC
From:
To:
tag 501254 unreproducible
thanks

2:52 adn@uracile /tmp% wget http://download6.msi.com.tw/files/downloads/mnu_exe/E6533v1.0.exe
--2008-10-06 02:52:23--  http://download6.msi.com.tw/files/downloads/mnu_exe/E6533v1.0.exe
Résolution de download6.msi.com.tw... 66.232.110.223
Connexion vers download6.msi.com.tw|66.232.110.223|:80...connecté.
requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse...200 OK
Longueur: 2696320 (2,6M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `E6533v1.0.exe'

100%[===================================================================>] 2 696 320    446K/s   in 6,4s

2008-10-06 02:52:30 (409 KB/s) - « E6533v1.0.exe » sauvegardé [2696320/2696320]

2:52 adn@uracile /tmp% 7z l E6533v1.0.exe

7-Zip  4.58 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Igor Pavlov  2008-05-05
p7zip Version 4.58 (locale=fr_FR.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)

Listing archive: E6533v1.0.exe

Solid = -
Blocks = 1
Encrypted = -
Multivolume = -
Volumes = 1

   Date      Time    Attr         Size   Compressed  Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
2001-12-04 09:48:56 ....A      3888887      2670654  6533v1.pdf
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
                               3888887      2670654  1 files, 0 folders
2:52 adn@uracile /tmp% 7z e E6533v1.0.exe

7-Zip  4.58 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Igor Pavlov  2008-05-05
p7zip Version 4.58 (locale=fr_FR.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)

Processing archive: E6533v1.0.exe

Extracting  6533v1.pdf

Everything is Ok

Size:       3888887
Compressed: 2696320
#501254#17
Date:
2008-10-06 01:18:11 UTC
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To:
Well it doesn't work for me, and the only(?) thing I didn't match is your locale.
$ md5sum E6533v1.0.exe
d28510002d593f3f32a0e8018781bfd5  E6533v1.0.exe
strace shows it opens the file and decides to poop out:
readlink("6533v1.pdf", 0x91f9fe0, 1024) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("6533v1.pdf", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 4
close(4)                                = 0
stat64("6533v1.pdf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
utime("6533v1.pdf", [2008/10/06-09:12:46, 2001/12/04-09:48:56]) = 0
lstat64("6533v1.pdf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
chmod("6533v1.pdf", 0644)               = 0
write(1, "Extracting  6533v1.pdf     Unsupp"
#501254#22
Date:
2008-10-06 01:26:31 UTC
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To:
"Unsupported method, I can only list this, to extract you will need to
install (the seemingly unrelated) p7zip-rar".