irda-utils doesn't uninstall

[Robin Sheat]

Binary package hint: irda-utils

$ sudo aptitude remove irda-utils
...
Removing irda-utils ...
error: "net.irda.discovery" is an unknown key
invoke-rc.d: initscript irda-utils, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing irda-utils (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 255
error: "net.irda.discovery" is an unknown key
invoke-rc.d: initscript irda-utils, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 irda-utils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Note: I'd changed ENABLED="false" to ="true" in /etc/defaults/irda-utils, changing it back let it uninstall.

[Félix Velasco (felix-velasco)]

The same thing happened to me when upgrading edgy to feisty, with irda-utils unstalled and disabled. The installation continued after the warning, but was unable to clean old packages or even reboot.

[David Mohr (bugs-da)]

I also ran into this bug when upgrading from edgy to feisty, having had irda-utils installed previously.

Eythian, your solution worked, thanks so much for reporting it here :-).

I can't believe though that there's not an updated package out there, afterall feisty has been out for a long time, this bug report is months old!