Re: ``Can't exec'' during installs ???
"Michael D. Schleif" <mds@helices.org> writes:
> Am I the only one getting debconf errors during installations? I
> suspect that this began after the upgrade to perl v5.8x, and the
> installations appear to complete successfully . . .
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Can't exec "/tmp/config.156301": Permission denied at
> /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/IPC/Open3.pm line 159.
Do you have your /tmp on a separate partition, that's mounted noexec?
Don't do that; it gains you nothing in the way of security and breaks
things that expect to be able to run scripts there.
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