Bug#409019: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: Fails to uninstall/purge.

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Subject: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: Fails to uninstall/purge.
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686
Version: 2.6.18-7
Severity: normal

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I cannot get this package to uninstall/purge from the system.  No matter
what I do I continue to get the following error:


dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.18-3-686


I have tried reinstalling the package to attempt to get a proper install,
and then trying to purge it again, with the same result.  Nothing I do
seems to get rid of it.

Note: this error occurs only with dpkg, or with dselect as the front-end
to dpkg.  If I attemp "apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.18-3-686"
instead, apt-get tells me the package is not installed.  There's seems to
be some sort of disconnect betwee the two, obviously.

Nevertheless, I cannot get this out of my dselect queue since it always
fails, and subsequent dselect runs just try it again and again.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.97-5     The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.11     Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85e      tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.3-pre3-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                   2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i