I had the same problem. What happened is that the latest version of ppp now includes ppp-pam, so ppp-pam is removed when upgrading to ppp 2.3.11-1.
However, there was an entry in /var/lib/dpkg/diversions that I think was supposed to be removed when ppp-pam was removed but wasn't. In fact I saw an error message flash by to that effect during the upgrade. The entry in /var/lib/dpkg/diversions looks like this: /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/sbin/pppd.ppp-pam ppp-pam That apparently causes /usr/sbin/pppd to be renamed to /usr/sbin/pppd.ppp-pam when installed. Not completely understanding this at first, I manually deleted those 3 lines and then reinstalled ppp 2.3.11-1, which then installed the binary /usr/sbin/pppd. After that everything worked OK. Actually, I later realized that /usr/sbin/pppd and /usr/sbin/pppd.ppp-pam are the same file - so I just deleted the pppd.ppp-pam copy. Here's the files that ppp installs in /usr/sbin according to 'dpkg -L ppp' /usr/sbin/chat /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/sbin/pppstats /usr/sbin/pppdump Tom David Kanter wrote: > > I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to the newest frozen packages; upgrading > ppp > REMOVED ppp-pam. Now I cannot connect to the Internet via Debian. I've got to > use Mandrake instead. > > Is this some wierd dependency problem? > > -- > David Kanter > Northwestern University > Evanston, Illinois USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
