[Gllug] Debian: Help with problems cleaning up consequences of an extended 'duh' moment...

[James Roberts]

Could someone help me dig myself out of a hole I just dug?

I am running Debian Sarge on a remote VM and apt-got webmin.

Since this installed 1.18 and the current release is 1.29 with some bits 
I needed I updated Webmin using its own utility which worked fine (I 
know...)

Happiness evaporated when I did an aptitude update/upgrade which tried 
to update Webmin (I know, I wasn't thinking...)

I then made matters worse by trying to manually delete the 1.29 install 
(which was in the Webmin default tree).

I now have a broken Webmin that I can't up or down grade - it's hanging 
on Webmin-core.

I tried messing with the removal scripts (commenting out bits) but that 
did not help either so I put it all back.

I've tried all the suggestions I have found so far for fixing this and 
they have not worked.

Output is as follows:

ker:~# apt-get -f install

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up webmin-core (1.180-3sarge1) ...
/etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing webmin-core (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
  webmin-core
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ker:~# apt-get -f remove webmin

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   webmin webmin-core
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 16.0MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 22208 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing webmin-core ...
/etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing webmin-core (--remove):
  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
/etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Removing webmin ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
  webmin-core
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ker:~#


Any suggestions? I'm an escaped (and recovering) Windows admin but this 
is the first time I have managed to break Debian this way!

TIA

JR
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