I purged fetchmail and then the Bind9 update seemed to fix itself.
>apt-get purge fetchmail Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: blt python-tk Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: fetchmail* fetchmailconf* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 2,867 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 51812 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fetchmailconf ... Purging configuration files for fetchmailconf ... Removing fetchmail ... Pidfile not found! Is fetchmail running? ... failed! Purging configuration files for fetchmail ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up bind9 (1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze3) ... Stopping domain name service...: bind9 waiting for pid 8891 to die. Starting domain name service...: bind9 ... Bind still seems to hang at restart but now it shows: >dpkg -l bind9 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===========================-===========================-====================================================================== ii bind9 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze3 Internet Domain Name Server Go figure? -- Sam --------------------------------- Samuel Gasster sgass...@aol.com ---------------------------------
