hylke@hylke-ubuntu:~/starez/src/client$ python
Python 2.5.1c1 (release25-maint, Apr 12 2007, 21:00:25) 
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tarfile
>>> tarfile.TarFile("ut2004-lnxpatch3369-2.tar.bz2", "r")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1075, in __init__
    self.firstmember = self.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1835, in next
    "file: %s" % e)
tarfile.ReadError: empty, unreadable or compressed file: invalid literal for int() with base 8: '\xa3\xd2\x01\xa3B\xa1-\x9a'
>>>