[pca] Incorrect permissions in prepatch for 121118-19

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Thu Nov 10 09:35:49 CET 2011


Hi Laurent,

> I'm hitting the following error while trying to install an Update 
> Connection patch, of all things:
> ERROR: The /tmp/pca.516446/121118-19/prepatch script contains invalid 
> permissions. Please make the script executable and reinstall 121118-19.

Strange. I've successfully installed that patch on various systems, and haven't 
heard about the problem before. When extracting the ZIP file, I see that the 
permissions of prepatch are correct (ie. it's executable).

The MD5 of my copy of 121118-19 is 85005ba9c9844686bbfa0dfee3661bb2 - does yours 
match?

Or could it be that /tmp is mounted with "noexec" on the affected system? I've 
never tried that, but it could cause that error, I guess. Setting the TMPDIR 
environment variable to some other patch would help then.

Martin.



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