When i download game files i get Error : Invalid Archive

[exaker]

When i download game files i get Error : Invalid Archive so whats the problem guys? i`m getting this for like 1 year whenever i come back to game...

[reaperrr]

Where are you downloading it from?

[exaker]

Official Website

[reaperrr]

What OS do you have and which package did you download?
There haven't been many other reports of such errors (I don't know of any), so we need more details to figure out what the problem might be.

[exaker]

I have Win7, I downloaded Quick Download Red Alert 1 Which is 14mb or smth like that

[reaperrr]

I can't find anything called "Quick Download Red Alert 1" on our download page.

Are you sure you downloaded it from here? http://www.openra.net/download/

[pchote]

I assume this is about the ingame asset downloads.

[reaperrr]

Oh, I see.

[Snurre86]

Could you take a screenshot? What is "getting this for like 1 year" If you have over a year old version you can download the new release or playtest here.

[exaker]

No i have downloaded newest playtest.

[exaker]

Ops i mean newest Release sorry

[Snurre86]

Make a new folder in the install folder (OpenRA) and call it Support (OpenRA\Support) then see what happens.

[exaker]

Nothing changed.

[abcdefg30]

Do you got any error logs to share (especially install.log)? They should be located at
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\OpenRA\Logs or inside OpenRA\Support\Logs.

[Snurre86]

Open install.log with a text editor and add the text on here as the file type can't be uploaded here or paste the text to http://pastebin.com/ then place the link here.

[raigoinabox]

Hello, I am having the same problem. My OS is Ubuntu 16.04 and the openra package is the latest release package (20161019.release). This is the contents of my install.log after a failed download:

Fetching mirrors from http://www.openra.net/packages/ra-quickinstall-mirrors.txt
Downloading http://openra.mirror.haffdata.com/ra-quickinstall.zip
Extraction failed
Deleting temporary file /tmp/5s3oy55r.mfe
Download failed: Invalid archive

[reaperrr]

Hm, I just tried to reproduce this, but both on bleed and release 20161019 quickinstall worked fine for me.
At least the file on the haffdata mirror is not corrupted according to my tests, so the problem must occur either during download or extraction.

[raigoinabox]

So, I downloaded the source code and I noticed that "Invalid archive" is shown on any exception. I added a simple logging of that unknown exception, built and ran and I got this:

Fetching mirrors from http://www.openra.net/packages/ra-quickinstall-mirrors.txt
Downloading http://galaxy.republic.community/h/openra/ra-quickinstall.zip
System.NotSupportedException: No data is available for encoding 775.
  at System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding (Int32 codepage) <0x7fb25106bd80 + 0x00360> in <filename unknown>:0 
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipConstants.ConvertToString (System.Byte[] data, Int32 count) <0x40f374c0 + 0x00038> in <filename unknown>:0 
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipConstants.ConvertToStringExt (Int32 flags, System.Byte[] data, Int32 count) <0x40f373e0 + 0x00063> in <filename unknown>:0 
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () <0x40f35fe0 + 0x00673> in <filename unknown>:0 
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile..ctor (System.IO.FileStream file) <0x40f359e0 + 0x0015f> in <filename unknown>:0 
Extraction failed
Deleting temporary file /tmp/vhyohnya.qwi
Download failed: Invalid archive

Very short googling got me that maybe this has something to with me having a Baltic locale or encoding? https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/61880/system-notsupportedexception-regarding-encoding. This is the result of running on my machine locale:

LANG=et_EE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=et
LC_CTYPE="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

In short this means that my locale is set to Estonia and my encoding is UTF8.

[vaincz]

raigoinabox: thank you for tip. I had the same problem and when I read your comment I just tried

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

and suddenly it works!

[rob-v]

Thanks @raigoinabox. This small PR #13119 doesn't solve the main issue but your reported issue: Add exception info to logged 'Extraction failed' (Invalid archive) error

[rob-v]

Workaround - Change temporarily your System locale: https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/20884-how-do-you-change-language-settings-non-unicode-programs-win10.html