I saw that the /etc/passwd was mostly there just as I was called to Breakfast.
After a few chores, I saw your post. /etc/passwd had 38 lines in it, but my username was not listed. So using vi I entered to /etc/passwd
username:x:1000:1000:FullName:/home/username:/bin/bash
rebooted and was able to log in. So I guess the aftermath just leaves me without a valid /etc/passwd- file. Perhaps the system will take care of this on it’s own ?
I actually decided to just use cp to copy passwd to passwd-
Pudge