Oh dear

If you ran (and accepted) that command with buster in your sources then you've upgraded your ASCII system using Debian buster, which doesn't sound good at all.

If you can install the apt-show-versions package then check the output of this command to see the extent of the damage:

apt-show-versions | grep '/buster'

You could try an emergency downgrade: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … owngrading

But I think restoring your system from a clean backup (ie, one made before you polluted your sources) is probably the best course of action.

FWIW, I'm not seeing that in my Debian buster system. Both versions of libuuid1 are co-installable and e2fsprogs is not uninstalled in the process:

E485:~$ apt policy libuuid1{,:i386} e2fsprogs
libuuid1:
  Installed: 2.33.1-0.1
  Candidate: 2.33.1-0.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.33.1-0.1 500
        500 https://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libuuid1:i386:
  Installed: 2.33.1-0.1
  Candidate: 2.33.1-0.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.33.1-0.1 500
        500 https://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian buster/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
e2fsprogs:
  Installed: 1.44.5-1
  Candidate: 1.44.5-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.44.5-1 500
        500 https://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
E485:~$

The xfsdump amd64 package had a version bump to deal with https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … =%23837581 but the other architectures didn't, I think this may be worth a bug report.

For clarity: synaptic was removed because the developers felt that the program failing without an error message meant that it did not attain the requisite quality to be included in the official release, adding a clear error message was enough to get it added back in time for Debian 10.

@OP: perhaps ask Mr. Reurich about the upower version, he is the maintainer for that package.

No.

The hard drive controller in that machine contains embedded firmware which is powerful enough to pwn the device.

Coreboot don't mention this on their site, strangely. Neither do Raptor. But then I suppose they have businesses to run...

The POWER9 microarchitecture is open source and Raptor's offerings are blob-free but it's aimed at high TPD servers rather than low power hacker boards.

OK, can we please see

export LC_ALL=C
apt-cache policy doc-base menu
apt list --upgradable
apt-get -s dist-upgrade

The browser appears to be webkit based and they don't update the AppImage often enough to cover the steady stream of vulnerabilites associated with that engine so it's probably best not to use it at all.

Those packages are needed for Secure Boot support and manipulation of the machine owner keys (MOK).

Can you edit your post with the English output please:

sudo -i
LC_ALL=C apt-get install --reinstall menu
exit

Thanks!

I'm pretty sure the Devuan installer mounts /boot/efi to the EFI system partition. Check with findmnt.

You don't mention which version of Devuan you're using but try

# apt-get install --reinstall menu

If that doesn't work then please post the entire output rather than a section of it.