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Re: Bug#537492: menu: Binary without execution bits.



Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (18/07/2009):
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> (18/07/2009):
> > This looks strange, it seems that the test found update-menus
> > executable, but it no longer is.  Namely, the shell has apparently
> > hashed it, since otherwise you would "update-menus: command not found"
> > instead of "permission denied".
> > 
> > This may be because the dpkg trigger for update-menus had been
> > activated.  Can you examine your dpkg.log entries of the failed
> > upgrade?
> 
> (No sign of triggers, it's just that emacs21 gets configured before
> menu.)
> 
> That one might be arch-related:
> | kbsd:/home/kibi# which update-menus
> | /usr/bin/update-menus
> | kbsd:/home/kibi# ls -l /usr/bin/update-menus 
> | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113028 jun  8 13:13 /usr/bin/update-menus
> 
> That's on GNU/kFreeBSD. I still have to investigate why, but it looks
> like if [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ] returns true even with the
> above-mentioned conditions. Cc'ing -bsd.

I guess the answer is in coreutils's lib/euidaccess.c; it'd be nice if
someone could have a look at it.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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