Bug#384497: Installation fails with /tmp mounted noexec

[John Smith]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.01.04-5

When installing lvm2 on sarge stable with the filesystem
/tmp mounted 'noexec' (a common security measure), the
installation fails. See the following installation:

root at host:/home/user >apt-get install lvm2 libdevmapper1.01 lvm-common
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
libdevmapper1.01 is already the newest version.
Suggested packages:
  ext2resize dmsetup
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lvm-common lvm2
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 284kB of archives.
After unpacking 873kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://server sarge/main lvm-common 1.5.17 [14.6kB]
Get:2 http://server sarge/main lvm2 2.01.04-5 [270kB]
Fetched 284kB in 0s (1147kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Can't exec "/tmp/lvm2.config.57401": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8/IPC/Open3.pm line 168.
open2: exec of /tmp/lvm2.config.57401 configure  failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 44
lvm2 failed to preconfigure, with exit status 255
Selecting previously deselected package lvm-common.
(Reading database ... 15541 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lvm-common (from .../lvm-common_1.5.17_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package lvm2.
Unpacking lvm2 (from .../lvm2_2.01.04-5_i386.deb) ...
Setting up lvm-common (1.5.17) ...

Setting up lvm2 (2.01.04-5) ...
Backing up any LVM2 metadata that may exist...done.

root at host:/home/user >