On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:43:44 +0100 Mathias Gug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:08:42PM -0000, hehol wrote:
> > I just tried to install mysql-server-5.0 on a Ubuntu 7.10 server
> > which accidentally had wrong permissions on the /tmp directory
> > (755, owned by root:root).
> 
> How come did this happen ?

The problem occured on a hosted installation. Obviously, the hosting
company provided a broken OS image. But still, the postinst script
should not produce weird results when mktemp runs into problems.

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Henning Holtschneider
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