Bug#788434: udev: Error when upgrading the package

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 debconf

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:22:55 +0200 Mathieu Bridon <bochecha at daitauha.fr>
wrote:
> Package: udev
> Version: 215-17+deb8u1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I just ran 'apt upgrade' as usual, and there were a few packages to update.
> 
> At some point, this appeared in the apt output:
> 
>     [...]
>     Preconfiguring packages ...
>     Can't exec "/tmp/udev.config.3c8vTp": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.20/IPC/Open3.pm line 177.
>     open2: exec of /tmp/udev.config.3c8vTp configure 215-17 failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 59.
>     (Reading database ... 113362 files and directories currently installed.)
>     [...]
> 
> If I get this right, debconf tried to execute this script from /tmp and that failed, because:
> 
>     $ mount
>     [...]
>     tmpfs on /run/user/1001 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=204884k,mode=700,uid=1001,gid=1001)
> 
> /tmp is mounted noexec here, so of course the script can't be executed.
> 
> I don't think I did anything special though, I just installed Jessie, and I'm using the default mount options for everything.
> 
> As a result, it seems like a bug that the packaging relies on being able to execute a script in /tmp if the default mount options include noexec.
> 
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.1
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_HK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_HK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages udev depends on:
> ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56

That looks like a debconf problem, thus re-assigning.


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