I'm using testing and debian has got itself in a bad way now.
I upgraded several packages 3 days ago and have been trying to sort it
out since - I think the offending packages may be udev or libusb.
I also added a line for usbfs /proc/bus/usb to my fstab.
I subsequently lost my sound driver, my ability to open shell consoles
in X, my CPU thermometer and various bits of gnome. My /dev/null is set
to the wrong permissions on boot too.
I read some other people were having issues with udev here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg00631.html
so I decided to try to downgrade my udev to v0.79 (I can't deinstall it,
gnome is dependent on it) but I can't find udev 0.79 anywhere to do that
(either on any website or via package manager such as aptitude (no other
versions available) or synaptic (the option is disabled for reasons I
can't fathom)).
So I'm stuck. I can't figure out how to fix it and I'm wondering why I
am using the testing distro after all. Perhaps I should downgrade my
whole system to sarge? Or perhaps just reinstall testing?
I'd be v. grateful for any realistic advice at this point.