Package: nsd Version: 4.1.26-1 Severity: normal The bottom lines of the package installation were:
Preparing to unpack .../nsd_4.1.26-1_amd64.deb ... Job for nsd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status nsd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript nsd, action "start" failed. * nsd.service - Name Server Daemon Loaded: loaded (file:/lib/systemd/system/nsd.service /lib/systemd/system/nsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-01-27 16:38:05 EST; 12ms ago Docs: man:nsd(8) man:nsd(8) Process: 536 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nsd -d (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 536 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Jan 27 16:38:05 systemd[1]: nsd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jan 27 16:38:05 systemd[1]: nsd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jan 27 16:38:05 systemd[1]: Failed to start Name Server Daemon. dpkg: error processing package nsd (--configure): installed nsd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (241-7~deb10u5) ... Errors were encountered while processing: nsd Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The package is left in an half-Conf state. I think the problem is not having a working nsd configuration files. Which is a bit trickier to solve. Just setting appropriate configuration files and dpkg-reconfigure nsd /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: nsd is broken or not fully installe Doesn't work. I opted to dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/nsd_4.1.26-1_amd64.deb -- u34