Hi, I had the same problem with checkinstall. After a running checkinstall was interrupted for a network failure, I was unable to login.
Checking a root on the console showed permissions of / set to 700. To me it seems that checkinstall does not like to be interupted. FYI, it was was chan_misdn, as the debian packages are a bit outdated (IMHO misdn evolves too fast currently for the debian packaging process) Bye, Joerg
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