Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

I installled console-log, because it looked useful. 

However once I did that, I could not get the machine in question to shutdown
cleanly, it always hung at shutting down console-log.

So, I tried to remove it with dselect. dslect hung while suting it down alos.

At this point in time, I have rbooted several times, and a "dpkg --purge-package
console-log" hnags at the "shuting down package" state, forever (it's been siting
there for an hour!

This of course renders dselect useless!

Help, please, how do I fix this?

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Stan Brown     stanb@awod.com                                    843-745-3154
Charleston SC.
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Windows 98: n.
	useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
	a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
	originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
	company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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