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

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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-intensive processes running at the time, but I've never seen that message before—in fact, this is the first time that I can remember getting an error when trying to run a Perl script. After a few seconds of waiting, I was able to run it, and haven't seen the issue since, but it would be nice to have an explanation for this.

Running Ubuntu 9.04, file system is ext3.

6 Answers

I had this same issue and grepping to see what was using the file didnt work. turns out i just needed to restart the droplet and viola script now works.

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