reopen 571177 thanks * Junichi Uekawa <[email protected]> [Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 02:50:00PM +0900]:
[...] > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/html2text.postinst: 6: cannot create /dev/null: > > Permission denied > > Please make sure that /dev/null is writeable and otherwise abort > > accordingly if the underlying device is not mounted with according > > dev rights (/dev/shm is rw,nodev by default). > You should know what you're doing when you are abusing /dev/shm for such > purposes. It's NOT /dev/shm specific, just mount /var with nodev mount option and you'll explore the same behaviour in the default settings/options/mode. Other software like debootstrap, FAI,... includes the according checks, like: | /usr/share/debootstrap/functions: line 1047: /home/mika/tmpfs/foo/test-dev-null: Permission denied | E: Cannot install into target '/home/mika/tmpfs/foo' mounted with noexec or nodev regards, -mika-
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