Pkg xen devel - Jul 2008 - Bug#488839: problem with python and xen-utils-common after remove of python

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 3.2.0-1~bpo4+1
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xen-utils-common depends on:
ii  lsb-base                  3.1-23.2etch1  Linux Standard Base 3.1 
init scrip
ii  udev                      0.105-4        /dev/ and hotplug 
management daemo
ii  xenstore-utils            3.2.0-3~bpo4+2 Xenstore utilities for Xen

xen-utils-common recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

/I unisntalled all python packages to try install it again ( did not use 
reinstall )
after the successfull uninstall of python, tryed to reinstall python and 
xen-utils-common
kept trying to use python, did not use -f --force to remove python /


*Details of error/problem:*

aptitude -t backports reinstall python
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information     
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done        
Building tag database... Done   
python is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled.
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  xen-utils-common
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 369kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 40847 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xen-utils-common ...
/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript xend, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing xen-utils-common (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript xend, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xen-utils-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

// command used to remove python
# apt-get remove python2.4 python2.4-dev python2.4-minimal 
python-minimal python-newt python-dev python2.5 python2.5-minimal


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