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