On Sat May 9 2020 13:31:48 Felmon Davis wrote: > the system is on Buster. I just did the latest upgrade several days > ago. (the file system problems started earlier; occasionally > 'read-only' system so have to run fsck.) > > ssd, kinda of aged. I'd probably use a PERL or awk one-liner to generate a list of installed packages and apt-get install --reinstall them all. If I couldn't just abandon the failing ssd apart from any data that needed backing up. --Mike