I found this discussion / bug thread while looking for a solution to an inability to install packages on a VPS in my Dreamhost account.
Dreamhost has /tmp mounted with noexec and there's some kind of permission preventing me from remounting it to turn off noexec. I don't know the ins and outs of whether it's a good idea or not to make /tmp noexec, whether it adds more security or not. Fact is that Dreamhost chose to set up their VPS's so /tmp is noexec and to prevent us from changing that setting. This same configuration choice already tripped me up yesterday while trying to install PECL packages ... and there's a workaround in PECL to configure a different tempdir. Thankfully the configuration setting in #19 does the trick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to debconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90085 Title: When /tmp is mounted noexec, preconfigure fails Status in debconf package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in debconf package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: mysql-server /tmp mounted noexec, this ensues: Preconfiguring packages ... Can't exec "/tmp/mysql-server-5.0.config.89611": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8/IPC/Open3.pm line 168. open2: exec of /tmp/mysql-server-5.0.config.89611 configure failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 57 mysql-server-5.0 failed to preconfigure, with exit status 2 ace To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/90085/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
