I had the unfortunate experience of remote fixing a system, and one way I tried to fix my original problem was to remove the /etc directory (this included the content of debian 8 with some alternative changes to the minimal one I did not set up myself). When I rebooted, this is still at activation of the first system generation, I get the repl because the symlink target does not exist (obviously).
We should think of such situations, however uncommon they are, and check if /etc exists. If it doesn't exist create it otherwise it is assumed that it exists and for example this symlink creation will work: ssl -> /run/current-system/profile/etc/ssl -- ng0 OpenPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588
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