update-intel-microcode crashed with IOError in __main__: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat'

[Somberlain]

appears when running without sudo

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: microcode.ctl 1.17-13.1ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 25 09:25:16 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-intel-microcode
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-intel-microcode
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-intel-microcode']
SourcePackage: microcode.ctl
Title: update-intel-microcode crashed with IOError in __main__: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat'
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/update-intel-microcode", line 46, in <module>
     dst = file(dstpath, 'w')
 IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat'
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-01-18 (37 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout libvirtd lp lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh)]

It must be run as root, and /usr/share/misc must be in a partition that is not marked read-only.