aries:/etc/apt# apt-get remove xinetd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xinetd
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 134 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 299kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-minimal.c: 84: __libc_memalign: Assertion `page != ((void *) -1)' failed!
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true returned an error code (127)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true

aries:/etc/apt# apt-get install bind sendmail proftpd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
bind is already the newest version.
proftpd is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  rmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda
Suggested packages:
  ca-certificates logcheck
Recommended packages:
  resolvconf
The following packages will be upgraded:
  rmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda
6 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 128 not upgraded.
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-minimal.c: 84: __libc_memalign: Assertion `page != ((void *) -1)' failed!
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly