[Pkg-javascript-devel] Updating and Upgrading debian:dev for docker fails and account is locked (Outreachy Account)

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thu, Oct 20 2022 at 06:16:34 AM +03:00:00 +03:00:00, Joshua Nsereko 
<nserekojowashi at gmail.com> wrote:
> i have set up my environment using docker because am running mac (i 
> will change OS after the Contribution Period if need rises) so i used 
> docker to setup the unstable debian environment via 
> https://gitlab.com/fsci/resources.
> 
> As everything seems to work fine, but after running sudo apt-get 
> update && sudo apt-get dist-upgradei get the following error and 
> using sudo again fails as the account seams broken.
> 
> Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.35-3) ...
> /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> dpkg: error processing package libc6:amd64 (--configure):
> 
>  installed libc6:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess 
> returned error exit status 127
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> 
>  libc6:amd64
> 
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> root at 2ffe435c51e9:/#sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> sudo: account validation failure, is your account locked?
> 
> 
> 
> How do most devs here set up their unstable environment?  Do you run 
> a Debian unstable distribution locally on the machine?
> 
> 
This is very likely to be related to the perl transition
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/10/msg00005.html 
You can try again after a day or two. Meanwhile you can go through the 
links I shared earlier.