[TriLUG] Locked Out of Debian Buster Following Many Updates

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

I had a similar experience last week trying to do a dist-upgrade from a
Debian Jessie (8) install to Bullseye (11).

Dist-upgrade decided to automatically remove *dpkg* (!!!) of all utilities,
and of course everything failed after that.  I mean, what?

Luckily there's nothing really on that machine, so I can just nuke it and
install from scratch, but that's the first time I've ever had a major
failure upgrading to a stable Debian distribution.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:08 PM Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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