Debian Bug report logs - #995793
exim4-base: /tmp partition has noexec mount option; exim4-base fails

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Steve Egbert <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 19:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 546911

Found in versions apt/1.8.1, apt/0.7.23.1

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WORKAROUND
Remove the “no exec” from /tmp mount point options in /etcfstab, reboot, then attempt ‘apt upgrade exim4-base’ so that Perl script for ‘exam-config’ can continue. 

OUTPUT of failed upgrade:

~# apt upgrade exim4-base
[?2004l

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 100%

Reading package lists... Done


Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... Done


Reading state information... 0% 

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done


Calculating upgrade... 0%

Calculating upgrade... 10%

Calculating upgrade... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libopts25 sntp
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  exim4-base exim4-config tzdata
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/1,906 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,784 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Reading changelogs... 25%
Reading changelogs... 50%
Reading changelogs... 100%
                          
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Can't exec "/tmp/tzdata.config.jtoGAt": Permission denied at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base/IPC/Open3.pm line 178.
open2: exec of /tmp/tzdata.config.jtoGAt configure 2021a-1 failed: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 59.

78(Reading database ... 
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(Reading database ... 181409 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../tzdata_2021a-1+deb11u1_all.deb ...
7Progress: [  0%] [..........................................................] 87Progress: [  5%] [##........................................................] 8Unpacking tzdata (2021a-1+deb11u1) over (2021a-1) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old tzdata package post-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.postrm): Permission denied
dpkg: warning: old tzdata package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new tzdata package post-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm): Permission denied
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2021a-1+deb11u1_all.deb (--unpack):
 new tzdata package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new tzdata package post-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm): Permission denied
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 new tzdata package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Preparing to unpack .../exim4-config_4.94.2-7_all.deb ...
7Progress: [ 10%] [#####.....................................................] 8dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new exim4-config package pre-installation script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst): Permission denied
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-config_4.94.2-7_all.deb (--unpack):
 new exim4-config package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new exim4-config package post-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm): Permission denied
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 new exim4-config package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Preparing to unpack .../exim4-base_4.94.2-7_amd64.deb ...
7Progress: [ 14%] [########..................................................] 8dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new exim4-base package pre-installation script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst): Permission denied
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-base_4.94.2-7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new exim4-base package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new exim4-base package post-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm): Permission denied
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 new exim4-base package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2021a-1+deb11u1_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-config_4.94.2-7_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-base_4.94.2-7_amd64.deb

78E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[?2004hroot@circa:~# exit
[?2004l
exit

Script done on 2021-10-05 15:48:17-04:00 [COMMAND_EXIT_CODE="100"]

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