Permission denied even as root !

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:52:31AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 20/12/04 Vincent Trouilliez said:
> > "unable to exec ./installation.sh: Permission denied"
> > "bash: ./installation.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied"
> 
> The Permission denied is a red-herring. Bad interpreter means that
> /bin/sh does not exist. 

You get that error when trying to execute files on noexec filesystems
too, which is a considerably more likely reason on a functional system.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]