Well, living on the blleding edge seems to have finally bitten me in the ass ;-) I normally do an apt-get update;apt-get upgrade every week or so unless I hear about major fixes. I did such an upgrade earlier today, upgrading nearly everything that could be upgraded. The only immediate abnormality was that X seemed to freeze (I could move the mouse, but clicking did nothing) soon after I upgraded some Gnome packages.
When I got back to my machine later, I found that ppp had reset some permissions on the ppp directory (it took dip off of the group, for some reason). I went to su to root, and I got a bad password error. Of course, I totally panicked. I quit X and restarted it, but the problem remained. As a desperate measure, I switched to another console and tried to log in as root and... it worked. It looks like some element relating to su has been broken. I apologize for not knowing which package contains su, but I have the latest version for Potato (x86) as of Wednesday (yesterday). I've just discovered that su fails to work on the console, too. Should I downgrade some packages (and if so, how is that done?) or wait until the next version of package x(y,z) to come out? Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks, -Chris
