I have this problem too whenever I try and remove lighttpd. The only way I could fix it was to add 'exit 0' on a new line in the /etc/init.d/lighttpd init script after #!/bin/sh ...
And then I had to remove all lighttpd related files manually. Extremely annoying, horrific package to a great project. The package also fails to do things such as creating the user "www" and group "www" , causing havoc. Absolutely horrible, this needs to be fixed urgently!! ;S -- remove lighttpd https://launchpad.net/bugs/46200 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs