Re: System needs repair after fsck

[Robert Vangel <vangelr@rfgt.net>]

Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Last night at boot the system checked (after 30 boots or so) my /usr
> partition. It dropped me to console; I did the suggested fsck /dev/hda8.
> After the lengthy check it came up; but with some errors; like screwed up
> XFCE configuration (some apps missing); some screwed up fonts; and 
> "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct"
> when I 'man foo'. For the rest it works well as far as I have tried.
>
> How to repair the system best without re-installing ?
> I read the doc for apt; dpkg; but didn't find an unambiguous check / 
> repair option; like I had used before for RPMs.
> Is there any, so that I can make out damaged packages ?
>
> What to do to get the system repaired, that otherwise boots fine ?
>
> Uwe

What about `apt-get install --reinstall'

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