Dear all, I have a debian bullseye/testing machine on a 2017 HP i7 machine that I used daily for many months but was not running since end of November 2019. I upgraded everything with apt update + dist-upgrade + autoremove + clean this week. I can't exactly say how but while everything appeared fine initially I now struggle with having a partially working system. Something with a very fundamental library seems to have created a unsolvable dependency situation and I can't get out of it. I think it started with libcrypt1 that was dependency but could not be found.
My question is foremost if I can get out of it myself and how or if it is due to some package currently not available (in Incoming as one error message suggests) and I just have to wait? Maybe my sources list does not make sense? apt list --upgradable Listing... Done firefox/unstable 74.0-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 69.0.1-1] libc-bin/testing 2.30-2 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.29-2] libc6/testing 2.30-2 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.29-2] libc6/testing 2.30-2 i386 [upgradable from: 2.29-2] libruby2.5/testing,unstable 2.5.7-1+b1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.5.7-1] login/testing,unstable 1:4.8.1-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 1:4.7-2] passwd/testing,unstable 1:4.8.1-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 1:4.7-2] whois/testing,unstable 5.5.6 amd64 [upgradable from: 5.5.2] When I do: sudo apt install whois The following packages have unmet dependencies: whois : Depends: libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0) but it is not installable sudo apt install locales libc-bin Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc-bin : Depends: libc6 (> 2.30) but 2.29-2 is to be installed sudo apt install libc6 libcrypt1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libcrypt1 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: libcrypt1:i386 This is my apt sources list: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib By trying to remove and reinstall I ended up losing some important packages, so I made it worse already. The general advice to clean/dist-upgrade/install -f does not get me any further. Any advice appreciated! Best regards, Marty.
