ok, silly me. After an apt-get -f install it seem the dselect upgrade issue is no longer there, but I was not told to do this by apt-get (which I usually am) thus it did not occur to me to try it.
I'll keep "you" posted on whether or not the filesystem issue comes up again. -- upgrade fails on dselect {Feisty} https://launchpad.net/bugs/87721 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs