Bug 214456 - ibmasm-utils

Need some help here. I'm hitting bug 214456. I hit when it originally was filed and I'm still hitting it with the latest package. At this point I would like just to remove the package completely but I cannot even do that as it fails also with similar error as reported in the bug. Can someone help me get this removed or upgraded. At this point I really don't care either way I just want the problem fixed.

Here's a removal attempt
jarosenf@jarosenf-Linux:~$ sudo apt-get remove ibmasm-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ibmasm-utils
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 135kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 117370 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ibmasm-utils ...
Stopping ibmasm:
invoke-rc.d: initscript ibmasm, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing ibmasm-utils (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 3
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ibmasm-utils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Here's a Upgrade attempt:
jarosenf@jarosenf-Linux:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade ibmasm-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  update-manager-core
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ibmasm-utils
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.9kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package ibmasm-utils.
(Reading database ... 117371 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ibmasm-utils 3.0-1ubuntu4 (using .../ibmasm-utils_3.0-1ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Stopping ibmasm:
invoke-rc.d: initscript ibmasm, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 3
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Stopping ibmasm:
Stopping ibmasm:
invoke-rc.d: initscript ibmasm, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ibmasm-utils_3.0-1ubuntu7_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 3
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ibmasm-utils_3.0-1ubuntu7_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The bug states a patch released but it looks like it doesn't fix everyone. At least it hasn't fixed me.