I found this discussion / bug thread while looking for a solution to an inability to install packages on a VPS in my Dreamhost account.
Dreamhost has /tmp mounted with noexec and there's some kind of permission preventing me from remounting it to turn off noexec. I don't know the ins and outs of whether it's a good idea or not to make /tmp noexec, whether it adds more security or not. Fact is that Dreamhost chose to set up their VPS's so /tmp is noexec and to prevent us from changing that setting. This same configuration choice already tripped me up yesterday while trying to install PECL packages ... and there's a workaround in PECL to configure a different tempdir. Thankfully the configuration setting in #19 does the trick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90085 Title: When /tmp is mounted noexec, preconfigure fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/90085/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
