Errors on upgrade

[Frank McCormick]

Got this error on the latest upgrades 

frank at dapper:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ntp-server
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
23 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/33.3kB of archives.
After unpacking, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 105467 files and directories currently
installed.) Preparing to replace ntp-server 1:4.2.0a
+stable-8.1ubuntu4 (using .../ntp-server_1%3a4.2.0a
+stable-8.1ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
 * Stopping NTP
server...
invoke-rc.d: initscript ntp-server, action "stop" failed. dpkg:
warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
 * Stopping NTP
server...
invoke-rc.d: initscript ntp-server, action "stop" failed. dpkg:
error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ntp-server_1%3a4.2.0a
+stable-8.1ubuntu5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new
pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were
encountered while
processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ntp-server_1%3a4.2.0a
+stable-8.1ubuntu5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg
returned an error code (1) frank at dapper:~$ 

Any ideas ??

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Cheers

Frank