Cannot remove thttpd

[Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@t-online.de>]

Hi,

I would like to remove the package thttpd but get the following error 
message. I do not see the process running (with ps aux for instance). 
How can I get rid of it. Here is the message I get from aptitude:

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 276185 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing thttpd ...
Stopping web server: invoke-rc.d: initscript thttpd, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing thttpd (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting web server: thttpd.
Errors were encountered while processing:
thttpd


thanks, Peter