[Pkg-samba-maint] [Fwd: package configuration issues]

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:33:10PM -0500, William Carrier wrote:
> william at AMD3000:~$ sudo dpkg --configure samba-doc
> Setting up samba-doc (3.0.24-6etch4) ...
> dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script:
> Permission denied

This is not a bug in Samba.  You've done something to your system that
prevents maintainer scripts from being executed.  This probably means that
/var/lib/dpkg is on a filesystem mounted "noexec", or you're using some
non-standard security module that's misconfigured.

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