[TriLUG] Locked Out of Debian Buster Following Many Updates

[Brian via TriLUG]

On 9/1/21 3:14 PM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:
> 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?

This wasn't a dist-upgrade on purpose, but it was a big pile of updated 
packages.  In my case, it was libcrypt1 that apt decided to remove, 
which then broke just about everything.

Live and learn, I guess!

-B