我使用 webmin 来配置服务器，并运行更新和升级软件包。它首先使用命令，apt-get update然后使用apt-get -y -f upgrade命令。
昨天我尝试升级项目（例如 bind9 等），但突然它似乎停止了升级。出于某种原因，它尝试在我的服务器上安装 mailman，但无法完成。超过 15 分钟后它仍然没有安装。因此，我中止了升级/安装然后重启服务器并重试。但又等了很长时间，mailman 根本无法安装。
现在我想从我的服务器上删除 mailman。但要删除它，我必须先完成 mailman 的安装，它说，然后我才能删除它。但安装和删除似乎都不起作用。
我尝试用这个命令：
apt-get remove mailman -y
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mailman
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 36.2 MB disk space will be freed.
dpkg: error processing package mailman (--remove):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
mailman
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
我甚至尝试了下面的命令，但它也无法被删除：
apt-get remove --purge mailman -y
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mailman*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 36.2 MB disk space will be freed.
dpkg: error processing package mailman (--purge):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
mailman
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
有人能帮我删除 mailman 吗？或者，如果不可能的话，我该如何跳过mailman-升级/安装，以便可以进行其他升级。
谢谢，凯文
答案1
我能够通过运行以下命令在我的 virtualmin 服务器上修复此问题：
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mailman start
$ sudo apt-get upgrade