[TriLUG] Locked Out of Debian Buster Following Many Updates

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 02:12:27PM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
> Amazing perhaps no one more than myself, some careful surgery with dpkg
> involving a whole lot of recursive dpkg --configure <something> and manually
> (re-)installing libcrypt1 (apt-get download, then dpkg) actually got my
> system back into a functional state.

Congratulations!


As a wild guess, I suggest that you started to do a "dist upgrade" and
that's when everything went East ( or South or West or wherever ).



Brian