Errors extracting Splunk Mobile app?

[mikelanghorst]

I've tried downloading it a couple times, but it wouldn't be the first time something on our network resulted in a corrupted download.

When I attempt to extract the file: mobile.tar.gz I get the following:

[mlanghor@mlanghor-wkstn Downloads]$ tar -xzf mobile.tar.gz 
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.creationtime'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.creationtime'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.creationtime'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'

I then tried to install via the "Install app from file" which seemed successful. It shows status=enabled but: The path '/en-US/custom/mobile/mobile' was not found

I had a previous version installed before but had removed: Disabled in the UI, then deleted from etc/apps and restarted. This is on RHEL 5.3, same tar behavior on Fedora 15.

[dwaddle · Accepted solution]

Yummy "feature" of BSD tar vs GNU tar on OSX, see http://ocdevel.com/blog/snow-leopard-tarball-uploading-issues

These should be safely ignored.