configure dies with Permission denied error

[ken picha]

I have debian running from a very simple installation of the 3.0
rev1 "woody" disks.

I downloaded and uncompressed the mm distribution on the machine, and I
am having a problem running "configure". This problem occurs no matter
what I try to build, and so it is not particular to "mm".

Logged on to the console as root when I execute:

./configure

I get the following error:

bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

Of course, configure will run if you execute:

sh configure

but it dies as soon as it tries to fire off a submodule

I have been working with solaris and other UNIX distributions for many
years, so I should know the answer to this one, but I am getting old
and can't remember anything anymore

any ideas?

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[Andreas Metzler]

ken picha <pic...@alians2.com> wrote:
[...]

> bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

> Of course, configure will run if you execute:

> sh configure

> but it dies as soon as it tries to fire off a submodule

> I have been working with solaris and other UNIX distributions for many
> years, so I should know the answer to this one, but I am getting old
> and can't remember anything anymore

Is the respective filesystem mounted with noexec, check /proc/mounts?
cu andreas