"xz: (stdin): File format not recognized" error in Pipelines
Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
The purpose of this KB article is to provide the reason why this error message generally occurs and how to resolve it.
Diagnosis
You are attempting to obtain a compressed file from an external location using a method such as cURL or wget and uncompress it. When you execute the build, however, the build fails with a variant of the following error message:
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xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting nowCause
The most common cause is as follows:
The file location that you are calling is either unavailable due to server downtime/authentication failure, or the file location has simply moved and the link is no longer valid
Solution
To further test and diagnose the issue so that it may be resolved:
Attempt to browse to the URL file location in a web browser, or attempt to perform a cURL/wget command against the URL locally and observe the result
If there is a failure, analyse the error that is displayed and attempt to locate the correct URL so that this may also be tested locally
Once the correct URL has been found and tested, update any references to it in your Pipelines YML configuration (or in any variables if these are used)
If the above instructions do not assist in resolving the issue, please raise a support ticket or raise a community support ticket for further assistance with this.
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