Upgrade to slink killed telnet

[Evan Moore <evan@info.load-otea.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca>]

Please help, I just upgraded one of our servers from debian 1.3 to slink
and now i telnet is broken. I get an error when trying to telnet into the
box:
telnetd: All network ports in use.
Connection closed by ...
what gives??

thanks
evan