I'm having trouble upgrading console-common on sarge today - is it me or is it sarge?

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Re: [Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 107741 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace console-common 0.7.38 (using .../console-common_0.7.41_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.41_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 9
Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.41_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.
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