apt-get permission denied

[Jack McGee]

On 08/09/2015 01:46 PM, robert rottermann wrote:
> just an Idea:
> permission denied may also mean that  some script is not executable.
>
> robert
> On 09.08.2015 18:09, Jack McGee wrote:
>> I am trying to update a 14.04 machine, it had a power outage, and I 
>> had to reinstall mythfrontend, but all seems to be working.
>>
>> Now I try to upgrade and get:
>>
>> mythuser at ZBOX84:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>   libcuda1-331 nvidia-331 nvidia-331-uvm nvidia-libopencl1-331
>>   nvidia-opencl-icd-331
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   apt apt-transport-https apt-utils bsdutils dh-python firefox
>>   firefox-locale-en ghostscript ghostscript-x gir1.2-gtk-3.0 
>> gir1.2-gudev-1.0
>>   hplip hplip-data iproute iproute2 libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 
>> libblkid1
>>   libgail-3-0 libgs9 libgs9-common libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin 
>> libgtk-3-common
>>   libgudev-1.0-0 libhpmud0 libmount1 libmyth-python libmythtv-perl
>>   libnautilus-extension1a liboxideqt-qmlplugin liboxideqtcore0
>>   liboxideqtquick0 libpam-systemd libparted0debian1 libpcre3 libpcrecpp0
>>   libsane-hpaio libsqlite3-0 libsystemd-daemon0 libsystemd-journal0
>>   libsystemd-login0 libtag1-vanilla libtag1c2a libtagc0 libtidy-0.99-0
>>   libudev1 libunity-control-center1 libuuid1 linux-libc-dev 
>> mythtv-common
>>   nautilus nautilus-data oneconf oneconf-common oxideqt-codecs-extra 
>> parted
>>   passwd printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-postscript-hp 
>> python-oneconf
>>   python3-oneconf systemd-services ubuntu-drivers-common udev
>>   unity-control-center unity-settings-daemon uuid-runtime
>> 68 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
>> 3 not fully installed or removed.
>> Need to get 0 B/106 MB of archives.
>> After this operation, 1,903 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
>> Preconfiguring packages ...
>> Setting up util-linux (2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.6) ...
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.postinst: 6: 
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.postinst: update-alternatives: 
>> Permission denied
>> dpkg: error processing package util-linux (--configure):
>>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
>> status 126
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  util-linux
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>>
>
>
mythuser at ZBOX84:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls -l util-linux.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1952 Aug  4 21:20 util-linux.postinst

Looks to be executable.