Control: reassign -1 debconf Hi!
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 03:54:34PM -0500, imschmeg wrote: >Package: grub-pc >Version: 2.06-3~deb10u3 > >The error message during an "apt upgrade" that includes grub-pc is: > >open2: exec of /tmp/grub-pc.config.ajRf2i configure 2.06-3~deb10u2 >failed: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm >line 59. > >The problem is that apt upgrade assumes /tmp is mounted exec. Common >security practice is to mount /tmp noexec, which I do. > >Apt install scripts could instead be executed without being exec by >passing them as a parameter to the shell command. > >Also, after the error, the apt upgrade finished instead of aborting, >leaving my system in an unknown state. I had to remount /tmp with exec >and reinstall the grub packages. This really isn't a grub bug - AFAICS what you're seeing here would happen with any package that's doing upgrades and uses debconf for configuration. I don't think this behaviour is necessarily a bug personally, but I'm reassigning this to debconf... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess
