[vox-tech] aptitude failue Could not early remove e2fsprogs

[Donald Greg McGahan]

A debian install in VMware is refusing to behave.
Below is the end of the aptitude output.

663 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/466MB of archives. After unpacking 34.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad,
but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Norse:/#
I'm stumped and apparently my googling skills are wierded today.
Any ideas? and Thanks in advance.
D.G. aka "DiG" McGahan