Even though all updates to bind9 have come direct from canonical, I am now getting broken dependency errors when it attempts to upgrade. Nor can Synaptic even uninstall or "completely remove" bind9 -- which I attempted to do in order to clean up whatever mess apt has created in its repeated attempts to upgrade the package.
So I'm at a loss here: I can't uninstall it. I can't upgrade it, and I can't do any of the upgrades to my system (currently there are 120 pending) because all of the package management tools throw errors concerning bind9 when I try to run them.
Along with a bug fix, suggestions on how to break the stalemate would be appreciated.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: bind9 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
AptOrdering: bind9: Purge
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 25 10:31:54 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
RelatedPackageVersions:
bind9utils 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.3
apparmor 2.7.102-0ubuntu3.1
SourcePackage: bind9
Title: package bind9 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-04 (144 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.bind.named.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.bind.named.conf.options: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.bind.named.conf: 2012-08-19T11:15:57.189245
mtime.conffile..etc.bind.named.conf.options: 2012-05-03T20:13:05.406264
* Stopping domain name service... bind9 ESC[80G /etc/resolvconf
run-parts: /etc/resolvconf
run-parts: /etc/resolvconf
invoke-rc.d: initscript bind9, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing bind9 (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1