diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 99daaf1..e59dde9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,8 +7,13 @@ noosfero (0.35.2~1) unstable; urgency=low
     mail-transport-agent.
   * /usr/share/dbconfig-common/scripts/noosfero/install/pgsql: run db:migrate
     just after db:schema:load.
+  * etc/init.d/noosfero: forward fix for the Lenny → Squeeze upgrade. In
+    Squeeze, `rails` is an empty package that depends on rails-ruby1.8, but
+    rails-ruby1.8 is only unpacked *after* noosfero prerm runs. This way, the
+    initscript must be able to stop the services without any of the Rails
+    libraries available.
 
- -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@colivre.coop.br>  Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:22:48 -0300
+ -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@colivre.coop.br>  Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:37:15 -0300
 
 noosfero (0.35.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/script/production b/script/production
index bdf709e..d58c336 100755
--- a/script/production
+++ b/script/production
@@ -37,10 +37,34 @@ do_start() {
 }
 
 do_stop() {
-  mongrel_rails cluster::stop
-  ./script/delayed_job stop
-  ./script/feed-updater stop
-  ./script/ferret_server -e $RAILS_ENV stop
+
+  # During Debian upgrades, it is possible that rails is not available (e.g.
+  # Lenny -> Squeeze), so the programs below might fail. If they do, we fall
+  # back to stopping the daemons by manually reading their PID files, killing
+  # them and wiping the PID files.
+
+  mongrel_rails cluster::stop ||
+    stop_via_pid_file tmp/pids/mongrel.*.pid
+
+  ./script/delayed_job stop ||
+    stop_via_pid_file tmp/pids/delayed_job.pid
+
+  ./script/feed-updater stop ||
+    stop_via_pid_file tmp/pids/feed-updater.default.pid
+
+  ./script/ferret_server -e $RAILS_ENV stop ||
+    stop_via_pid_file tmp/pids/ferret.production.pid
+}
+
+stop_via_pid_file() {
+  for pidfile in $@; do
+    if [ -e "$pidfile" ]; then
+      pid=$(cat $pidfile)
+      echo "Sentign TERM signal to stop $pid ..."
+      kill -TERM "$pid"
+      rm -f $pidfile
+    fi
+  done
 }
 
 environments_loop() {
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