Bug#229273: nscd cannot be purged when the daemon is stopped

[Peter Hawkins <peter@hawkins.emu.id.au>]

Package: nscd
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10
Severity: important

Hi...

The nscd package cannot be purged if the nscd daemon is not running. This is 
probably best explained by the command log below:

peterh@warpcore:~$ sudo apt-get install nscd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nscd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 541 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/84.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 209kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package nscd.
(Reading database ... 146952 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nscd (from .../nscd_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb) ...
Setting up nscd (2.3.2.ds1-10) ...
Starting Name Service Cache Daemon: nscd.

peterh@warpcore:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/nscd stop
Stopping Name Service Cache Daemon: nscd.
peterh@warpcore:~$ sudo dpkg --purge nscd
(Reading database ... 146961 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nscd ...
Stopping Name Service Cache Daemon: nscd.
invoke-rc.d: initscript nscd, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing nscd (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting Name Service Cache Daemon: nscd.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nscd
peterh@warpcore:~$

=)
Peter