On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 11:02:07PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
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> [let's post followups to this to tech-pkg only please!]
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> 
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> >   # pkg_delete mutt
> >   ./+DEINSTALL: permission denied
> >   pkg_delete: deinstall script returned error status
> > 
> > ktruss output is attached. it looks like /bin/sh is unable to run this script.
> > when i tried to run it by hand as: sh ./+DEINSTALL, it ran correctly.
> 
> Output of "ktrace -id pkg_delete mutt" would be interresting to see.
> I see no good reason for the deinstall to have permission denied, as it's
> explicitly chmod +x'd before running. 


Could it be that /var is mounted noexec ?
I've regulary this problem on my servers :)

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