Error in dist-upgrade

[Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>]

I just did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on a clean potato installed system.
At some point I was confronted with this question:

 Configuration file `/etc/init.d/kerneld'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
 What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
 Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
 N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
   D     : show the differences between the versions
   Z     : background this process to examine the situation
  The default action is to keep your current
  version.

I took the default (keep current) option. Which resulted in:

Installing new version of config file /etc/modutils/aliases ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/modutils/arch/i386 ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/kerneld: file does not exist
dpkg: error processing modutils (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Now, whenever I redo 'apt-get dist-upgrade' I see something like:

Setting up modutils (2.3.11-13.1) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/kerneld: file does not exist
dpkg: error processing modutils (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  modutils
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Can anyone please help me see what I did wrong, and how to fix my system
again? Thanks a lot!

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  Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>