I tried aptitude again. It showed the package state as "C". I tried to reinstall... no luck...
Setting up bind9 (1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze3) ... Stopping domain name service...: bind9Awakening mail retriever agent: fetchmail failed! run-parts: /etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/fetchmail exited with return code 1 run-parts: /etc/resolvconf/update.d/libc exited with return code 1 invoke-rc.d: initscript bind9, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing bind9 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: bind9 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up bind9 (1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze3) ... Stopping domain name service...: bind9 waiting for pid 1791 to die. Starting domain name service...: bind9 .... hangs for several minutes.... .... .... Awakening mail retriever agent: fetchmail failed! run-parts: /etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/fetchmail exited with return code 1 run-parts: /etc/resolvconf/update.d/libc exited with return code 1 invoke-rc.d: initscript bind9, action "restart" failed. ....hangs for a long time... more than 10 minutes... gave up... Cntl-C ^Cdpkg: error processing bind9 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt) Errors were encountered while processing: bind9 Press return to continue. aptitude still shows bind9 in broken state (C). help... :-( -- Sam --------------------------------- Samuel Gasster sgass...@aol.com ---------------------------------