I'll confirm K's report and views.
The 'breakage' I reported above resulted from grub not updating the boot menu to default to the most recent kernel, which caused me to boot to the 2.6.12-10-386 kernel instead.
Whatever the problem was, it was transient.
I'll confirm K's report and views.
The 'breakage' I reported above resulted from grub not updating the boot menu to default to the most recent kernel, which caused me to boot to the 2.6.12-10-386 kernel instead.
Whatever the problem was, it was transient.