"allow executing file as program" automatically unchecks

[alonewestand]

Trying to test a game via wine in a Windows directory. Cannot edit anything in the "properties" menu. Anything I change automatically resets itself. Cannot set program to executable so I can't run it to test it.

[sikander3786]

Seems like you've got the noexec flag in the mount properties in fstab.

Can you please post the output from /etc/fstab?

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Copy/paste carefully. Donot change anything in the file or you might screw your system.

[alonewestand]

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=68e8d011-ed80-46ae-8676-4038926f6644 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=a9c07eaf-9f93-4efe-aa0a-f417dc125868 none swap sw 0 0

[ubudog]

Have you tried this yet?

chmod +x filename

[tehweezil]

Have you tried this yet?

chmod +x filename

Same problem, except I'm using a Linux executable file and chmod +x doesn't work because when I attempt to run it I get the 'permission denied' error x|

Meh, this is shameful because I've been a proud Linux user and now Ubuntu's being paranoid and permission deadlocked as I remember Vista being before I got fed up with it and switched to Linux. Deja vu. x|

[sid32]

I had this happen to me in 10.10. The issue seems to be with the newest udisk.

To fix open synaptic (system - admin -synaptic). Check your udisk version number. See if there is a newer version available. If there isn't you'll want to go to:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+package/udisks

Download the version for your computer, probably the one found in
udisks 1.0.1-1build1 in i386 (Release).

Eject all usb devices. Download to desktop, open a terminal and do a force install. sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i nameofpackage.deb

Plug in USB again. Check to see if you can make programs executables. I use Floola to manage my ipod and thats the one I checked. If it works, open synaptic and lock the udisk version.

[CharlesA]

Seems like you've got the noexec flag in the mount properties in fstab.

Can you please post the output from /etc/fstab?

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Copy/paste carefully. Donot change anything in the file or you might screw your system.

Use gksudo instead on sudo for graphical apps.

[ubudog]

Or you could use a command-line editor, like joe. But yeah, for graphical apps, gksu or gksudo is best.

[alonewestand]

The same thing comes up when I use gksudo as it does in my first reply.

chmod +x gives me bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

[sikander3786]

Use gksudo instead on sudo for graphical apps.

Point well noted I have updated the code accordingly.