diff --git a/src/server/slavefuncs.c b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
--- a/src/server/slavefuncs.c
+++ b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
@@ -811,30 +811,38 @@ int unpackJob(char *outdir, char *pathto
   a = archive_read_new();
   ae = archive_entry_new();
 
-  archive_read_support_compression_all(a);
-  archive_read_support_format_raw(a);
-  astatus = archive_read_open_filename(a, pathtoTar, 8192);
-  if (astatus != ARCHIVE_OK)
+  if(!a
+     || !ae)
     {
-      fprintf(stderr, "Error opening archive!\n");
+      if(a)
+	archive_read_finish(a);
+      if(ae)
+	archive_entry_free(ae);
       return 1;
     }
 
-  for(astatus = ARCHIVE_OK;
-      astatus == ARCHIVE_OK
-        || astatus == ARCHIVE_WARN;
-      )
+  fprintf(stderr, "Trying to unpack %s into %s\n", pathtoTar, outdir);
+
+  archive_read_support_compression_all(a);
+  archive_read_support_format_all(a);
+  astatus = archive_read_open_filename(a, pathtoTar, 1);
+  if (astatus != ARCHIVE_OK)
     {
-      astatus = archive_read_next_header2(a, ae);
-      if(astatus == ARCHIVE_WARN)
-        fprintf(stderr, "Encountered nonfatal read error somehow!\n");
+      fprintf(stderr, "Error opening archive!\n");
+      archive_read_finish(a);
+      archive_entry_free(ae);
+      return 1;
+    }
 
-      if(astatus == ARCHIVE_OK
-         || astatus == ARCHIVE_WARN)
-        astatus = archive_read_extract(a, ae,
-                                       ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_NO_OVERWRITE
-                                       | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS
-                                       | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT);
+  while((astatus = archive_read_next_header2(a, ae)) == ARCHIVE_OK)
+    {
+      astatus = archive_read_extract(a, ae,
+				     ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_NO_OVERWRITE
+				     | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS
+				     | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT);
+      if(astatus != ARCHIVE_OK)
+	fprintf(stderr, "Encountered error or warning when attempting to extract file: %s\n",
+		archive_entry_pathname(ae));
     }
   archive_entry_free(ae);
   archive_read_finish(a);