Bug#395233: apt: preconfiguring packages with noexec /tmp
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.2
Severity: minor
I have seen this with a significant number of packages, so I am guessing
that this is a general problem with apt. I have /tmp mounted noexec,
and get errors along the lines of the following:
Preconfiguring packages ...
Can't exec "/tmp/console-common.config.83251": Permission denied at
/usr/share/perl/5.8/IPC/Open3.pm line 168.
open2: exec of /tmp/console-common.config.83251 configure 0.7.64 failed
at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 58
console-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 9
from a number of different packages. They seem to install though, so I
put this at a "minor" priority.
while I'm mounting /tmp noexec out of paranoia, it is a requirement in
some environments I have worked on, and it would be better if Debian
could handle such a configuration cleanly.
Luke Schierer
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
Acquire "";
Acquire::http "";
Acquire::http::Proxy "false";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-1 (20060810)]/ etch main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2006.01.18 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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