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Cannot tick "allow executing as a program" - it unticks itself (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by Babalugats@feddit.uk to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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I am not sure how many files that this happens to, but it has happened to two that I have tried in the last few days, one .sh file and another program/executable. I am logged in as root - Linux Mint 21.2 When I try to allow executing as a program it unticks itself (as in this video) I also get 'permission denied' in terminal, as root and i have tried

chmod +x filename

and

sudo chmod -v +x filename.sh

sudo chown --verbose 1000 filename.sh

But still get denied.. What am I doing wrong here or how can I fix this?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

First off don't log in as root

What file system is the file under? What are the results of ls -l?

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Results of ls -l

total 27040
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 27560272 Apr 13  2021 'Commandos 2 HD Remaster'
drwxr-xr-x 7 user user    32768 Apr 24  2021 'Commandos 2 HD Remaster_Data'
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user      200 Apr 24  2021  run.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user     2465 Mar  3  2021  uninstall.sh

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Can you try copying the file to a different name?

ie cp filename filename2