Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > $ ls -l /var/run/utmp > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 24960 Jan 14 14:32 /var/run/utmp > > Thanks. After I rebooted, the information is back so I'm guessing its > absence was caused by my having updated a few times without rebooting. > All seems to be functioning properly. Depending upon which version of Debian you are running there have been changes. Namely this one. Old: ls -ld /var/run drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2014-01-14 06:33 /var/run New: $ ls -ld /var/run lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 6 19:05 /var/run -> /run That happens upon upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy. That upgrade should work okay. But if for example it was an old Testing to a current Testing then that would be jumping between versions that perhaps didn't get as much testing. There were some hiccups along the way. You might have hit one of them. But any release to another later release should upgrade okay. Bob
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