Bad Interpreter: Permission Denied Messages

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#1

I have just updated my system from openSuSE 11.0 to 11.1 and am re-installing some software that I have always had installed on prior systems with no problem. I am now getting the message “/bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied” message when trying to do this like a ‘configure’ command.

An example of the output is:
dmc55@dmcLinux00:/data/App_Software/krecipes-1.0-beta1> ./configure
bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

configure is set for executable as shown here:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dmc55 users 1148082 2006-09-01 22:12 configure

and my ID is the owner of the directory path leading. I have tried running with the ‘su’ command as well as my own ID and I receive the same error.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

#2

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Where did you copy the ‘configure’ file from? Has it been on windows
lately? Running as root isn’t going to help you if you are getting a
problem with the interpreter vs. rights. Post the output to the
following command:

file ./configure

If that says it’s some kind of dos/windows file then run dos2unix on the
file and try again:

dos2unix
file ./configure

If it’s better then try running it as usual.

Good luck.

DMCorsa wrote:
> I have just updated my system from openSuSE 11.0 to 11.1 and am
> re-installing some software that I have always had installed on prior
> systems with no problem. I am now getting the message “/bin/sh: bad
> interpreter: Permission denied” message when trying to do this like a
> ‘configure’ command.
>
> An example of the output is:
> dmc55@dmcLinux00:/data/App_Software/krecipes-1.0-beta1> ./configure
> bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
>
> configure is set for executable as shown here:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 dmc55 users 1148082 2006-09-01 22:12 configure
>
> and my ID is the owner of the directory path leading. I have tried
> running with the ‘su’ command as well as my own ID and I receive the
> same error.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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#3

Here is the output of the file command:
dmc55@dmcLinux00:/data/App_Software/krecipes-1.0-beta1> file ./configure
./configure: POSIX shell script text

The file came from a tar file I got from kde-apps.org and have used it before on prior installs. I got the same bad interpreter message when I tried to do a make on a gspca webcam package from their site.

I’ve never had this issue before on any of the prior versions of openSuSE, so I’m puzzled.

Thanks for the reply.

#4

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How about:

head -1 ./configure | hexdump

Good luck.

DMCorsa wrote:
> ab@novell.com;1932094 Wrote:
> Where did you copy the ‘configure’ file from? Has it been on windows
> lately? Running as root isn’t going to help you if you are getting a
> problem with the interpreter vs. rights. Post the output to the
> following command:
>
> file ./configure
>
> If that says it’s some kind of dos/windows file then run dos2unix on
> the
> file and try again:
>
> dos2unix
> file ./configure
>
> If it’s better then try running it as usual.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> DMCorsa wrote:
>>>> I have just updated my system from openSuSE 11.0 to 11.1 and am
>>>> re-installing some software that I have always had installed on prior
>>>> systems with no problem. I am now getting the message “/bin/sh: bad
>>>> interpreter: Permission denied” message when trying to do this like a
>>>> ‘configure’ command.
>>>>
>>>> An example of the output is:
>>>> dmc55@dmcLinux00:/data/App_Software/krecipes-1.0-beta1> ./configure
>>>> bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> configure is set for executable as shown here:
>>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 dmc55 users 1148082 2006-09-01 22:12 configure
>>>>
>>>> and my ID is the owner of the directory path leading. I have tried
>>>> running with the ‘su’ command as well as my own ID and I receive the
>>>> same error.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
> Here is the output of the file command:
> dmc55@dmcLinux00:/data/App_Software/krecipes-1.0-beta1> file
> ./configure
> ./configure: POSIX shell script text

> The file came from a tar file I got from kde-apps.org and have used it
> before on prior installs. I got the same bad interpreter message when I
> tried to do a make on a gspca webcam package from their site.

> I’ve never had this issue before on any of the prior versions of
> openSuSE, so I’m puzzled.

> Thanks for the reply.

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#5

Here is the output of the head -1 command

dmc55@dmcLinux00:/data/App_Software/krecipes-1.0-beta1> head -1 ./configure
#! /bin/sh

Thanks.

#6

In addition, I just tried running giving it ‘sh .configure’ - Here is the output from that. I have the gcc package installed and I tried this giving ‘su’ first as well as my own ID with the same result.

dmc55@dmcLinux00:/data/App_Software/krecipes-1.0-beta1> sh ./configure
checking build system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install… yes
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for kde-config… /opt/kde3/bin/kde-config
checking where to install… /opt/kde3 (as returned by kde-config)
checking for style of include used by make… GNU
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use --host'. See config.log’ for more details.

#7

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The reason it isn’t working is that you have a space in there after the ‘!’.

Good luck.

DMCorsa wrote:
> Here is the output of the head -1 command
>
> dmc55@dmcLinux00:/data/App_Software/krecipes-1.0-beta1> head -1
> ./configure
> #! /bin/sh
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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#8

No that’s not true. The #! mechanism works fine even with a space. Try this script:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

print "Hello world
";

My guess is that /data is a partition that is mounted with noexec.

#9

AH! That looks to be it, except now I don’t know how to change it. I looked in fstab and this is how my fstab looks:

dmc55@dmcLinux00:/etc> more fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS722525VLSA80_VN6JNRCFF1J5AE-part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS722525VLSA80_VN6JNRCFF1J5AE-part7 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS722525VLSA80_VN6JNRCFF1J5AE-part5 /boot ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/mapper/sil_ajabcfcfcaca_part1 /data ext3 user,acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS722525VLSA80_VN6JNRCFF1J5AE-part11 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS722525VLSA80_VN6JNRCFF1J5AE-part10 /opt ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS722525VLSA80_VN6JNRCFF1J5AE-part8 /usr ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS722525VLSA80_VN6JNRCFF1J5AE-part9 /var ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS722525VLSA80_VN6JNRCFF1J5AE-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g user,noauto,users,gid=users,
fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500641AS_3PM00J4F-part1 /windows/D ntfs-3g user,noauto,users,gid=users,fmask=133,
dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

The parition is mounted as /data and notice that it is a hardware RAID 0 setup.

When I issue a mount command it shows mounted with noexec as below:

dmc55@dmcLinux00:/etc> mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/mapper/sil_ajabcfcfcaca_part1 on /data type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sda11 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sda10 on /opt type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sda8 on /usr type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sda9 on /var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/proc on /var/lib/ntp/proc type proc (ro)

I went in the partitioner tool in YaST and didn’t see any fstab options set there where you could even state noexec.

Where do I change it?

Thanks. BTW this would also explain why I get that bad interpreter message on a totally different ‘make’ I tried to do on a gspca package to try to get my webcam to work since that’s broken too. The package is also on the same partition.

#10

Put ,exec after user on that line. The option user implicitly turns off exec. See man 8 mount.

#11

Got it! I actually went in to the Partioner tool in YaST and selected the mapping for the RAID and under fstab options in the arbitrary value field I entered ‘exec’.

Works now! Yay! Thanks to all for the help and responses. New one to me, never had to do that with any previous install of openSuSE.

1 issue down. lol!