Serious dpkg segfault problem

[Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net>]

I'm trying to update my system and its seriously broken.

How can I reinstall dpkg, when dpkg is Segfaulting?

libpam-runtime was broken during upgrade earlier.

Thanks for any help. Its much needed!
Rory

myhost:/var/cache/apt# apt-get install --reinstall dpkg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libpam-runtime
The following packages will be upgraded:
  dpkg libpam-runtime
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 186 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 53.7kB/1143kB of archives.
After unpacking 57.3kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main libpam-runtime 0.76-16 [53.7kB]
Fetched 53.7kB in 0s (444kB/s)      
(Reading database ... 36215 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libpam-runtime 0.76-15 (using .../libpam-runtime_0.76-16_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libpam-runtime ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.
myhost:/var/cache/apt# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)



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Rory Campbell-Lange 
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