Unexpected tar error while un tarring jdk17 binary in ppc64le and arm32 ubuntu 2404 docker image

[Haroon-Khel]

ref #3501 (comment)

Hitting a tar error while building arm32 and ppc64le ubuntu 24.04 docker static containers

 > [ 7/25] RUN mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm/jdk17 && tar -xpzf /tmp/jdk17.tar.gz -C /usr/lib/jvm/jdk17 --strip-components=1:                                                                                               
0.295 tar: conf/security/policy/unlimited: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted                                                                                                                 
0.295 tar: conf/security/policy/limited: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted                                                                                                                   
0.295 tar: conf/security/policy: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted                                                                                                                           
0.295 tar: conf/security: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted                                                                                                                                  
0.295 tar: conf/sdp: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted
0.296 tar: conf/management: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted
0.296 tar: conf: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted
0.305 tar: legal/java.base: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted
1.052 tar: jmods: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Operation not permitted

[Haroon-Khel]

The binaries untar without error on my local machine

[sxa]

Interesting ... yeah I can replicate that on one of my arm32 systems.
That's really odd ...
It's not specific to our tar file, but seems to be affecting directories extracted by tar. Sounds like a bug in the new ubuntu unless it's related to the kernel on the host. Like you I couldn't replicate with an aarch64 container with either Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 as the host machine. tar is at the latest version.
As an interim measure I would propose doing chmod -R a+rX /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-17-* afterwards which seems to work without problems but I'm nervous about whether this means we'll see issues elsewhere in our testing ...

[sxa]

Thought I'd already added this comment (Edit: yes I did but at #3501 (comment)) but running an emulated ppc64le container on another 24.04 host system did not show a problem, which works suggest there isn't a fundamentally problem with the base container and it potentially is related to the kernel being used

[sxa]

This is a situation where having QPC updated with latest images world help.