prepare rars doesn't work the same as 0.4 under windows

[Former user]

Multiple errors running 0.5.1 prepare rars under xp compared to no errors under 0.4

python c:\pyReScene-0.5.1\bin\preprardir.py -b c:\winrar_pack-4.20 C:\test

NOTE: install NumPy to speed up the reconstruction of RARs
      with a Recovery Record.
Extracting 1996-09-02_rar200.exe... done.
Extracting 1997-03-12_rar201.exe... done.
Extracting 1997-09-16_rar202.exe... done.
Extracting 1998-03-19_rar203.exe... done.
Extracting 1998-05-13_rar204.exe... done.
Extracting 1998-09-21_rar205.exe... done.
Extracting 1998-12-03_rar206.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-03-24_rar250.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-01-15_rar250.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-01-20_rar250b2.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-02-17_rar250b4.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-03-03_rar250b5.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-03-19_rar250b7.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-10-21_rar260.exe... Non fatal error(s) occurred
Extracting 1999-08-23_rar260b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 1999-08-29_rar260b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 1999-09-21_rar260b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 1999-09-29_rar260b6.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 1999-10-07_rar260b7.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 1999-10-14_rar260b8.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2000-05-11_rar270.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2000-06-20_rar271.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2000-02-23_rar270b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2000-03-06_rar270b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2000-04-08_rar270b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2000-04-27_rar270b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-03-02_rar280.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2000-11-24_rar280b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2000-12-11_rar280b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-01-10_rar280b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-01-26_rar280b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-02-16_rar280b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-09-07_rar290.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-07-28_rar290b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-08-14_rar290b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-08-26_rar290b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2001-08-31_rar290b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-05-14_rar300.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-01-18_rar300b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-01-28_rar300b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-02-21_rar300b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-03-04_rar300b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-03-16_rar300b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-04-19_rar300b6.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-04-28_rar300b7.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-12-18_rar310.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-01-15_rar311.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-10-16_rar310b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-10-23_rar310b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-11-10_rar310b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-11-24_rar310b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2002-12-07_rar310b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-05-15_rar320.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-03-09_rar320b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-03-17_rar320b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-04-05_rar320b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-04-21_rar320b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-05-05_rar320b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-01-22_rar330.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-11-14_rar330b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-11-23_rar330b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-12-07_rar330b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2003-12-20_rar330b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-01-09_rar330b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-09-08_rar340.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-11-02_rar341.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-12-26_rar342.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-06-20_rar340b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-07-05_rar340b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-07-28_rar340b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-08-03_rar340b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-08-20_rar340b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2004-09-01_rar340b6.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-08-03_rar350.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-10-07_rar351.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-03-30_rar350b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-04-10_rar350b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-04-22_rar350b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-05-10_rar350b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-06-05_rar350b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-06-26_rar350b6.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2005-07-11_rar350b7.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-08-05_rar360.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-09-14_rar361.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-12-03_rar362.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-03-29_rar360b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-04-18_rar360b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-05-08_rar360b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-05-25_rar360b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-06-15_rar360b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-07-03_rar360b6.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-07-13_rar360b7.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2006-07-20_rar360b8.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-05-22_rar370.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-09-20_rar371.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-09-04_rar371b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-01-08_rar370b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-01-17_rar370b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-02-02_rar370b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-03-01_rar370b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-03-19_rar370b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-04-03_rar370b6.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-04-16_rar370b7.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2007-05-05_rar370b8.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2008-09-16_rar380.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2008-05-29_rar380b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2008-06-16_rar380b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2008-07-10_rar380b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2008-08-02_rar380b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2008-08-29_rar380b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-08-16_rar390.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-12-12_rar391.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-11-16_rar391b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-12-01_rar391b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2010-02-10_rar392.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2010-01-23_rar392b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2010-03-15_rar393.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-04-26_rar390b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-05-20_rar390b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-06-10_rar390b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-06-30_rar390b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2009-07-20_rar390b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-03-02_rar400.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-05-28_rar401.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-05-23_rar401b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2010-11-11_rar400b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2010-11-26_rar400b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2010-12-18_rar400b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-01-04_rar400b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-01-24_rar400b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-02-06_rar400b6.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-02-20_rar400b7.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2012-01-09_rar410.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2012-02-17_rar411.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-10-18_rar410b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-10-30_rar410b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-11-10_rar410b3.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-11-22_rar410b4.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2011-12-15_rar410b5.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2012-06-09_rar420.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2012-05-03_rar420b1.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2012-05-13_rar420b2.exe... A fatal error occurred
Extracting 2012-05-27_rar420b3.exe... A fatal error occurred

[Gfy]

This is where the initial error occurs: https://bitbucket.org/Gfy/pyrescene/src/79bb0c355698c66536ebe0dc1d687ef1a312bcf2/bin/preprardir.py?at=default#cl-159

Can you check if your wrar260.exe is corrupt? (open it with WinRAR)

Does this happen each time? At the same version?

Can you show me the result of the rar.exe output after adding these lines under the print statement?

                    print(extract.stdout.read())
                    print(extract.stderr.read())

[Former user]

#!

python c:\pyReScene-0.5.1\bin\preprardir.py c:\winrar_pack-4.20 c:\test
Extracting 1996-09-02_rar200.exe... done.
Extracting 1997-03-12_rar201.exe... done.
Extracting 1997-09-16_rar202.exe... done.
Extracting 1998-03-19_rar203.exe... done.
Extracting 1998-05-13_rar204.exe... done.
Extracting 1998-09-21_rar205.exe... done.
Extracting 1998-12-03_rar206.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-03-24_rar250.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-01-15_rar250.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-10-21_rar260.exe... Non fatal error(s) occurred

UNRAR 4.20 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2012 Alexander Roshal


Extracting from c:\winrar_pack-4.20\wrar260.exe

; WinRAR 2.60
; Multifunctional Integrated Archive Manager


Verifying authenticity information ...  Failed

Skipping    File_Id.diz
Skipping    Descript.ion
Skipping    ReadMe.txt
Skipping    License.txt
Skipping    Rar.txt
Skipping    Rar_Site.txt
Skipping    Rcvt.txt
Skipping    Register.txt
Skipping    TechNote.txt
Skipping    UnrarSrc.txt
Skipping    WhatsNew.txt
Skipping    RarFiles.lst
Skipping    Uninstall.lst
Skipping    WinRAR.hlp
Extracting  c:\test\Rar.exe                 OK
Total errors: 1

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\pyReScene-0.5.1\bin\preprardir.py", line 264, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(options, args))
  File "c:\pyReScene-0.5.1\bin\preprardir.py", line 65, in main
    extract_rarbin(input_dir, output_dir)
  File "c:\pyReScene-0.5.1\bin\preprardir.py", line 164, in extract_rarbin
    print(extract.stderr.read())
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'read'

I guess it's more picky about the authentication information. For the record, I downloaded the rar pack from here:

http://rescene.wikidot.com/rar-versions

specifically the 120MB pack of WinRAR executables

[Gfy]

I downloaded the pack again to test with the bad file, but the file in there is fine. I remember though having a bad file once.

I fixed it, so it now looks like this:

Extracting 1999-03-24_rar250.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-01-15_rar250.exe... done.
Extracting 1999-10-21_rar260.exe... done. (Non fatal error(s) occurred)
Extracting 2000-05-11_rar270.exe... done.
Extracting 2000-06-20_rar271.exe... done.

The file was extracted, so it'll be used when there only was an authentication error.

[Gfy]

Keeps working after a corrupt executable. This fixes issue #5.

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