/usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Text file busy

Question

This is a new one for me: What does this error indicate?

  /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Text file busy

There were a couple of disk-inte

Answer 1

This always has to do with the perl interpreter (/usr/bin/perl) being inaccessible. In fact, it happens when a shell script is running or awk or whatever is on the #! line at the top of the script.

The cause can be many things ... perms, locked file, filesystem offline, and on and on.

It would obviously depend on what was happening at the exact moment you ran it when the problem occured. But I hope the answer is what you were looking for.