John "the Ripper" Broken?

I think when SuSE fixed the version of "John" the password cracker, run by security-weekly and security-monthly, they broke "John." I checked manually, with a single word password list I know it broke before the patch, and now it passes. It also doesn't seem to use the /var/lib/john/john.log file to save every 600 seconds as stated in the /var/lib/john/john.ini file anymore. "John" does run, but it doesn't seem to come up with a result; it did before the patch. Has anyone else noticed this problem?