either my DietPi setup (PAM in particular) got traumatized by me going away for a weekend and started lisping, or I need a new SD card.

Damn it...

It turned into edgy teenager lol

... or apt auto upgrade in background made an oopsie.

(One of the things for which Ubuntu deserves a Darwin award...)

@IntrusionCM IDK man, too many typos in too random places. These off-bits are scattered across all the logs in the system

BTW I don't think Linux does any apt upgrade in the background w/o my explicit confirmation.

update -- yes. But not upgrade. One of the reasons I enjoy linux over windows had been, is and I hope will remain -- non-intrusive updates.