I just spent literally HOURS on this issue. Turns out, it's an apparmour thing. GRRR!!!!
Here's what fixed it for me:
ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.named /etc/apparmor.d/force-complain/usr.sbin.named
Not sure if the command
aa-complain /usr/sbin/named did anything either.
In looking for this, I was upgrading, downgrading all over the shop! I see now there are other suggestions here in the forums to actually fix the apparmor settings properly, but this works!