Last night I was doing a long overdue update on a system I use mostly for learning. Many things must have gone horribly wrong during the update as a result of all of the segfaults, but aptitude seemed to think it was a success. I'm not sure what all is broken, but I know that X for sure is broken, and no amount of forcing reinstallation of packages has worked so far.
What I want to do is two fold. I want to tell debian to just go ahead, and try to reinstall everything, as it is probably still in the package cache, and I can't think of any other way to make sure all files got saved in place, and that the scripts in the packages got executed. And I want to check for stray files that may not have been deleted due to something like a segfault when it was attempting to rm a file. I feel like there has got to be some tools to do this kind of thing, but I haven't been able to figure out what can do either of those tasks yet after several hours of trying to figure it out on my own.
