apt-get permission denied

[Jack McGee]

On 08/10/2015 01:27 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> 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.
>
>

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