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

[James Roberts]

Sorry used reply by mistake...

James Roberts wrote:
> 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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