Actually I just re-read and saw that you indicated /sbin was the symlink, (the reverse of what we did for our "fix") which seems really strange because dpkg -L shows /sbin/apparmor_parser as a file in the apparmor package, but not /usr/sbin.
ndco-admin@CARMD-EV-ALBLD7:~$ dpkg -L apparmor /. /etc /etc/apparmor /etc/apparmor/parser.conf /etc/apparmor.d /etc/apparmor.d/abi /etc/apparmor.d/abi/2.13 /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/X /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/apache2-common /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/apparmor_api /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/apparmor_api/change_profile /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/apparmor_api/examine /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/apparmor_api/find_mountpoint /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/apparmor_api/introspect /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/apparmor_api/is_enabled /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/aspell /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/audio /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/authentication /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/base /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/bash /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/consoles /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/cups-client /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dbus /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dbus-accessibility /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dbus-accessibility-strict /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dbus-session /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dbus-session-strict /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dbus-strict /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dconf /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dovecot-common /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dri-common /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dri-enumerate /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/enchant /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/fcitx /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/fcitx-strict /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/fonts /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/freedesktop.org /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/gnome /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/gnupg /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ibus /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/kde /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/kde-globals-write /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/kde-icon-cache-write /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/kde-language-write /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/kerberosclient /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ldapclient /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/libpam-systemd /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/likewise /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/mdns /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/mesa /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/mir /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/mozc /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/mysql /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nameservice /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nis /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nvidia /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/opencl /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/opencl-common /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/opencl-intel /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/opencl-mesa /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/opencl-nvidia /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/opencl-pocl /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/openssl /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/orbit2 /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/p11-kit /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/perl /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/php /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/php5 /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/postfix-common /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/private-files /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/private-files-strict /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/python /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/qt5 /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/qt5-compose-cache-write /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/qt5-settings-write /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/recent-documents-write /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ruby /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/samba /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/smbpass /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ssl_certs /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ssl_keys /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/svn-repositories /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-bittorrent-clients /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/java /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/kde /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/mailto /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/multimedia /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/plugins-common /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/productivity /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/text-editors /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/ubuntu-integration 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Actually I just re-read and saw that you indicated /sbin was the symlink, (the reverse of what we did for our "fix") which seems really strange because dpkg -L shows /sbin/apparmor_ parser as a file in the apparmor package, but not /usr/sbin.
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