On Sat, 9 May 2020, Mike Bird wrote: > 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 you are speaking to the file system frailty, right? I'm still wondering if there's a way to fix the tdeinit/dcopserver problem (without reinstalling everything). f. -- Felmon Davis