[Bug 1585295] Re: package openssh-client 1:7.2p2-4 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration

[ChristianEhrhardt]

/me is ignoring any irony for now

Joshua just finally cleaned and handled a lot of bugs that were missed to have taken care of - thank you for that.
That said if you come by hundreds of similar issues sometimes answers become rather short.
And IMHO most of the time people don't even care as they used it as fire-and-forget bug report and fixed it 5 minutes later via a search engine leading mostly to askubuntu.

That said in such cases as yours I usually recommend following this askubuntu Entry which covers the case in a good way.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/148715/how-to-fix-package-is-in-a-very-bad-inconsistent-state-error

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Title:
  package openssh-client 1:7.2p2-4 failed to install/upgrade: package is
  in a very bad inconsistent state; you should  reinstall it before
  attempting configuration

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  os updates failed

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: openssh-client 1:7.2p2-4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue May 24 19:54:34 2016
  DuplicateSignature:
   Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
   dpkg: error processing package openssh-client (--configure):
    package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
  ErrorMessage: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should  reinstall it before attempting configuration
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-13 (163 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   ssh-askpass       N/A
   libpam-ssh        N/A
   keychain          N/A
   ssh-askpass-gnome 1:7.2p2-4
  SSHClientVersion: OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4, OpenSSL 1.0.2g-fips  1 Mar 2016
  SourcePackage: openssh
  Title: package openssh-client 1:7.2p2-4 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should  reinstall it before attempting configuration
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-23 (30 days ago)

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