I have the same problem: $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: samba-common The following packages will be upgraded: samba-common 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 8 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/326 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 273643 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace samba-common 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.1 (using .../samba-common_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement samba-common ... dpkg: warning: samba-common: config file 'etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba' is a circular link (= '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba') dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-common_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2_all.deb (--unpack): unable to open '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba.dpkg-new': Too many levels of symbolic links Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-common_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) $ ll ../dhclient* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1791 Feb 22 21:01 ../dhclient.conf ../dhclient-enter-hooks.d: total 12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1028 Dec 17 16:48 avahi-autoipd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1379 Feb 22 21:02 debug -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2845 Jan 27 20:11 resolvconf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jun 1 12:31 samba -> ../../dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba ../dhclient-exit-hooks.d: total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1378 Feb 22 21:02 debug -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 806 Jan 4 00:17 ntpdate -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1386 Feb 22 21:02 rfc3442-classless-routes -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1025 Dec 17 16:48 zzz_avahi-autoipd I tried: $ sudo dpkg -P --force-depends samba-common $ sudo apt-get install samba-common Didn't work either: $ sudo apt-get install samba-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: samba-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 8 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/326 kB of archives. After this operation, 681 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package samba-common. (Reading database ... 273620 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking samba-common (from .../samba-common_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-common_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2_all.deb (--unpack): unable to open '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba.dpkg-new': No such file or directory No apport report written because the error message indicates an issue on the local system Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-common_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Did anyone find a solution to this problem?