Another example of dpkg screwiness

[Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>]

Ack!

I've had 5-6 of these on my last round of upgrades.

harley:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get dselect-upgrade -y
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  talkd nfs-server
The following packages have been kept back
  apache-common apache apache-dev libapache-mod-perl
1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0b/283k of archives. After unpacking 327k will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 17889 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nfs-server (from nfs-server_2.2beta36-3.deb) ...
Stopping remote filesystem services: mountd nfsd.
dpkg: error processing nfs-server_2.2beta36-3.deb (--unpack):
 error setting ownership of symlink `usr/man/man8/rpc.mountd.8.gz': No such file or directory
E: Sub-process returned an error code
harley:/var/cache/apt/archives#

Thanks

Jeff