Peter Robinson wrote:
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
You could either start thttpd before removal (invoke-rc.d thttpd start) or remove the offending script /var/lib/dpkg/info/thttpd.prerm and then 'aptitude remove thttpd'. This is probably a bug in the thttpd dpkg scripts.
-- Jamin @ Home @ Chester UK