Comment 1 for bug 159357

Of course, it's not until exactly 2 minutes after I submit the bug report that I figure out the fix. I maintain that this is still a bug, because the installation should have failed, but at least I have a workaround now.

After noticing that dnsdomainname complained during the install, I decided to wager that it was the main contributing factor, so I started fiddling around and found that it was, indeed the problem. One just needs to make sure that dnsdomainname returns a proper result, and that is done by fiddling with either your dns or the /etc/hosts file... the latter is what I did. After dnsdomainname returned a proper result, I did

$ sudo aptitude purge krb5-admin-server
$ sudo apt-get install krb5-admin-server

and all was well. Perhaps there should be a fallback for when dnsdomainname doesn't return properly during installation? Either way, installation shouldn't fail that critically when there is something amiss with the dns, no?

-Matt