Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 19:35 +0100, Andy Green wrote: >> You need to remount without 'noexec' as Kevin figured out. > > So, I need to edit the fstab line to: > > /dev/sda7 /mnt/arkive reiserfs noauto,user,noexec 0 > 0 > > and remount? No, "noexec" is causing your problem, it is currently an active attribute of your mount, as shown by the output ''[root@mamdo MPlayer-1.0rc2]# mount | grep 'arkive' /dev/sda7 on /mnt/arkive type reiserfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=dd)'' What it does is what Kevin suspected, basically kills the executable attribute's power on all files in that filesystem. That's why you can run sh configure but not ./configure. Somehow your mount action is getting the noexec attribute assigned, I guess maybe it can be udev or some script you mount with or somesuch. You can do this: mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/arkive -treiserfs -oremount,rw,nosuid,nodev,user=dd to effectively remount taking out the "noexec" part. -Andy
