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The partition containing the files may be mounted readonly. Check
less /etc/mtabfor anrooption on that entry.Also, at least for ext4 filesystems, probably many others, there's an option (noexec) that prevents any execution. Might be worth checking that
That wouldn't prevent the chmod, just would refuse to execute even if the file is
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