Comment 6 for bug 406650

Hmm .. here's what happens when I try "apt-get remove --purge rabbitmq-server":

{{{
Removing rabbitmq-server ...
Stopping rabbitmq-server: No nodes running
rabbitmq-server.
Purging configuration files for rabbitmq-server ...
Removing user `rabbitmq' ...
Warning: group `rabbitmq' has no more members.
userdel: user rabbitmq is currently logged in
/usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel rabbitmq' returned error code 8. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing rabbitmq-server (--purge):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for sreadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 rabbitmq-server
}}}

This is odd since rabbitmq is not even running.

Also, the laptop on which the error occurs was upgraded from jaunty. I have another laptop on which I installed karmic from scratch and rabbitmq-server installs on the latter w/o a hitch.