Problems with setuid app in Ubuntu 12.04

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 17:15 +0530, Rigved Rakshit wrote:
>         >          Failed to setuid to root. Error 1: Operation not permitted
> 
> There seems to be a ubuntuforums post where a similar problem to yours
> was encountered.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232607&page=28 Scroll down to
> post #272.

I agree that looks identical to my problem; unfortunately there's no
followup with any sort of solution or anything.

> Switching to the last page, post #471 has a link to a blog post for
> 11.10
> (http://blog.poomalairaj.com/juniper-network-connect-ubuntu-11-10/).
> It's basically a summary of everything in this very long thread.
> Please try it and check if your VPN is working or not.

FYI, I'm the person who wrote the junipernc script and
http://mad-scientist.net is my site.  All the information available at
this blog I'm already familiar with and there's nothing new or different
there than I've done many times already, unfortunately.

I just don't know how to make progress at this point.  Is there
something I can enable on the system that might provide more details
about exactly what permissions are missing or what this error message
really means?