Michael wrote:
>>First, I cannot su to root anymore.  I can login as root from the 
>>console, though.
> 
> unpack base.tgz with tar xpzf ... - without p permissions won't be properly restored, including some setuid bits, like in su.

This was it, thanks!

Now to figure out the etcupdate problem...

Tim

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