I was on the testing branch for awhile, then my bro took over the machine and I 
lost the root password.  At any rate, I now have the root passwd again and went 
to do an update.  Finding that there were massive things to be upgraded, I went 
ahead and did them.  After this, I lost telnet access into the box.  Not that 
big of a deal for me, I use SSH.  But my bro insists on being able to use 
telnet for some odd and strange reason.  At any rate, the brokeness of telnet 
is somewhat of a big deal.  Anyhow, here is what happens:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home]$ telnet <hostname>
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ...
Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
Escape character is '^]'.
Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable xxx.xxx.xxx
Connection closed by foreign host.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home]$

There are no access controls that I know of - looking at the logs just shows 
successful telnet connections.  A glance at hosts.allow and hosts.deny are 
unrevealing (Wouldn't get that far into it anyway, with the banner).  Manually 
executing /bin/login at the command line gives the expected results and I am 
able to successfully authenticate.  I'm not quite sure how to debug whether 
login is getting called or not, or where in the process this is dying.  Any 
help would be appreciated.  Thanks

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