Looks like the root partition on my main pc is corrupt. Turned it on tonight and it wouldn’t boot. fsck.ext3 wasn’t able to repair it, luckily I was able to get a copy of /etc and a list of installed packages.

Reinstalling as I speak.

Update: Basic reinstall done, now just to reinstall all the packages.  The main disk appears to have gone, when my computer boots the BIOS gives a S.MA.R.T. error.  Not good.  Fortunately I have another disk spare so I’m using that,