xfree86-common error log

[enrike at altern.org]

hi

this is the error i am getting everytime i install something with
synaptics or apt-get. A couple of examples. Sorry they are in spanish but
they say something like :

"the subprocess post-installation script returned the output error code 1
These errors were found while processing:
 xfree86-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
"

any hints?
below the error logs:


xx at ubuntu:~ $ sudo apt-get --purge remove portmap
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  portmap*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 135kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Leyendo la base de datos ...
126717 ficheros y directorios instalados actualmente.)
Desinstalando portmap ...
 * Stopping portmap daemon...                                            [
ok ]
Purgando ficheros de configuración de portmap ...
Configurando xfree86-common (6.8.2-10) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/xfree86-common exists during rc.d purge (use -f
to force)
dpkg: error al procesar xfree86-common (--configure):
 el subproceso post-installation script devolvió el
código de salida de error 1
Se encontraron errores al procesar:
 xfree86-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




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xx at ubuntu:~ $ sudo apt-get install abiworld
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package abiworld
r2d2 at ubuntu:~ $ sudo apt-get install abiword-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  abiword-doc
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 4093kB of archives.
After unpacking 5382kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main abiword-doc 2.2.2-1ubuntu2
[4093kB]
Fetched 4093kB in 5s (720kB/s)

Preconfiguring packages ...
Seleccionando el paquete abiword-doc previamente no seleccionado.
(Leyendo la base de datos ...
126872 ficheros y directorios instalados actualmente.)
Desempaquetando abiword-doc (de .../abiword-doc_2.2.2-1ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
Configurando xfree86-common (6.8.2-10) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/xfree86-common exists during rc.d purge (use -f
to forc e)
dpkg: error al procesar xfree86-common (--configure):
 el subproceso post-installation script devolvió el
código de salida de error 1
Configurando abiword-doc (2.2.2-1ubuntu2) ...
Se encontraron errores al procesar:
 xfree86-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)