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