I can't confirm by the way but the hell of your situation is how do you do fix stuff without eopkg
?
Chroot from live, and run sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall
OR (to see what is going on)
or
sudo eopkg check | tee /dev/stderr | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall
chroot is a PITA but do it one step at a time, slow. "I hate the weird ones"--eopkg
is the nerve center of the operation for sure
plan B--try another terminal for the halibut?
edit: so every eopkg
command has the identical python errors?