apt-get permission denied

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 14:52:01 -0500
Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
> 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
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> mythuser at ZBOX84:/var/lib/dpkg/info$

Is it possible that /var has come up mounted noexec? This seems to
start when launching the first script in /var.

Petter

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