I read a while ago that the debian package somehow recreates /dev/null as a regular file. Looks like your /dev/console might be hosed as well. Here's what they should be:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Sep 12 18:58 /dev/null crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 Sep 12 18:59 /dev/console You probably have to boot from CD (or net) to get back into your system, but you could try init level 1. When you get in, use mknod to recreate these files if needed. -- Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as UNIX/MERT is today. - Martin Habets ---------------------------------------------------------------------------