Problemas con apache

[Jose Miguel Vidal Lavin]

Señores

    En un servidor con debian sid y kernel 2.6.6.7-1 tengo un problema 
con apache2-common en el momento de desintalarlo sale el siguiente error:

# apt-get remove apache2-common
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apache2-common apache2-mpm-perchild
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 3809kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 87496 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing apache2-mpm-perchild ...
Stopping web server: Apache2invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action 
"stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing apache2-mpm-perchild (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: apache2-common: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you 
request:
 apache2-mpm-perchild depends on apache2-common (= 2.0.50-8).
Removing apache2-common ...
Stopping web server: Apache2invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action 
"stop" failed.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 apache2-mpm-perchild
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


he buscado en google y solo encuentro la misma pregunta pero sin respuestas.
tambien he tratado de desintalar con --purge pero da el mismo error.

alguna sugerencia?

saludos y gracias