Ubuntu
mysql-dfsg-5.1 package

  1. Bug #188334
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 188334

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Henning Holtschneider (henning-loca) wrote : Re: [Bug 188334] [NEW] installation broken when /tmp has insufficient permissions

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:43:44 +0100 Mathias Gug <email address hidden>
wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:08:42PM -0000, hehol wrote:
> > I just tried to install mysql-server-5.0 on a Ubuntu 7.10 server
> > which accidentally had wrong permissions on the /tmp directory
> > (755, owned by root:root).
>
> How come did this happen ?

The problem occured on a hosted installation. Obviously, the hosting
company provided a broken OS image. But still, the postinst script
should not produce weird results when mktemp runs into problems.

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Henning Holtschneider
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