Comment 5 for bug 1071293

The same for zabbix-server-mysql:

~$ sudo apt-get purge zabbix-server-mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fping libiksemel3 libopenipmi0 snmpd
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  zabbix-server-mysql*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 2,473 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 240067 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing zabbix-server-mysql ...
invoke-rc.d: initscript zabbix-server, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing zabbix-server-mysql (--purge):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                               * zabbix_server is disabled in /etc/default/zabbix-server.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 zabbix-server-mysql

~$ uname -a
Linux Sirius 3.5.0-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 11 18:51:59 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux