AFAIK this was caused by the proprietary Cisco AnyConnect VPN client I had installed. I unstinatlled it (sudo /opt/cisco/vpn/bin/vpn_uninstall.sh), updraded the packages without a hitch and reinstalled the VPN client. It seems to have worked perfectly.
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