netatalk trouble

[ghe <ghe@slsware.com>]

I actually need netatalk (as opposed to the recent poster) in an office 
full of Macs.

I've been trying for quite a while, so some stuff is already there. When 
asked to install, Aptitude says:

> Selecting previously deselected package netatalk.
> (Reading database ... 63846 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking netatalk (from .../netatalk_2.0.3-11+lenny1_amd64.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Setting up netatalk (2.0.3-11+lenny1) ...
> Starting Netatalk services (this will take a while): atalkd is already running (pid = 5320), or the lock file is stale.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript netatalk, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing netatalk (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  netatalk
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> Setting up netatalk (2.0.3-11+lenny1) ...
> Starting Netatalk services (this will take a while): atalkd is already running (pid = 5320), or the lock file is stale.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript netatalk, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing netatalk (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  netatalk
> Press return to continue.

And ps says:

> root      5320  0.0  0.0   5988   676 ?        T    12:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/atalkd

So sure enough, it's there. But 'killall atalkd' (or a full pathname) 
does nothing -- it's still there (same pid) afterward.

Do I have some some flip-flop toggled incorrectly or something? I've 
been running netatalk for years with (relatively) no problem.

Last May, I broke my brains falling of a bike, tossing my head into a 
pile of rocks. I'm still recovering. So please allow a little slack for 
bent brains -- I just spent half a day trying to remember the name of 
program that displays a sorted list of running processes. Thank you, 
Google, for finding 'top' for me. And stay away from bicycles!

--
Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com