On 13-Feb-2000 S. Salman Ahmed wrote: >>>>>> "DK" == David Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DK> I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to the newest frozen > DK> packages; upgrading ppp REMOVED ppp-pam. Now I cannot connect to > DK> the Internet via Debian. I've got to use Mandrake instead. > DK> > DK> Is this some wierd dependency problem? > > No it seems like a bug to me. /usr/bin/pon and /usr/bin/poff both try to > use /usr/sbin/pppd. But since ppp-pam has been removed, the only pppd > binary on my system is /usr/sbin/pppd.ppp-pam. That's why pon fails.
I saw it coming and I stopped my upgrade in time. -- Andrew