dpkg problem

[Rik Burt <rikb@home.com>]

In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg.  Whenever I
run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault.

I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my
system.

Does anyone have an idea how I can get dpkg working again at least or at
most make dselect work.  (I know they work together)

I have a committed a cardinal sin in that I didn't write down the
package that started the problem but I have a sneaking suspicion it was
the dpkg update.

TIA Rik