Bug#390789: apache2.2-common_2.2.3-1 postinst error

Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.3-1 This is AMD64, if it matters. I got some annoying errors trying to remove apache2-common: Removing apache2-common ... Stopping apache 2.0 web server...grep: /etc/apache2/conf.d/[^.#]*: No such file or directory apache2: Syntax error on line 116 of /etc/

Bug#390893: The apache2-common removal workaround

Oh, I'm sorry it wasn't obvious. The problem is that 1) apache2-common's prerm runs /etc/init.d/apache2 stop, which 2) runs /usr/sbin/apache2 -t, which 3) parses the config files, and does a full apache setup, which 4) tries to load all the modules, but 5) apache2-mpm-prefork has already been rem