Thread: mkinitramfs failure on upgrade

i know why happened, need know problems it's going cause , how can re-install / fix problem.

have /tmp folder mounted -noexec ... when did recent update 10.04.1 lts server installation, got following errors:

processing triggers initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-server
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/init-premount/lvm2: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/init-top/all_generic_ide: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/init-top/blacklist: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/init-top/udev: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/panic/console_setup: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/init-bottom/udev: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/local-premount/fixrtc: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/local-premount/ntfs_3g: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/local-premount/resume: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/nfs-top/udev: permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_h30dak/scripts/local-bottom/ntfs_3g: permission denied
press return continue.

should now? (besides, obviously, removing -noexec flag /tmp doesn't happen again!)

thanks!

if (after remounting /tmp)

code:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

does package install successfully?

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