On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.10.18 > Severity: important > > dpkg proceeds even if the preconfigure scripts do not successfully run. > > For example, /tmp is locally mounted noexec to prevent abuse. After > upward of a hundred errors like the below, dpkg carried through the > rest of the install and completed without any indication that anything > had gone wrong. If I had not been watching the console, I would not > know why some packages are broken. > > Can't exec "/tmp/base-config.config.111481": Permission denied at > /usr/share/perl/5.8.2/IPC/Open3.pm line 165. > open2: exec of /tmp/base-config.config.111481 configure 1.75 failed at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 44 > base-config failed to preconfigure, with exit status 255 > Can't exec "/tmp/passwd.config.111483": Permission denied at > /usr/share/perl/5.8.2/IPC/Open3.pm line 165.
dpkg is not running that. debconf is. Which is either called by apt directly(preconfigure), or by a package's preinst/postinst. If it's the latter case, it's a bug in the package. So, what package are you having problems with, so that this bug can be reassigned to it.
