authentication dies

[Duffy, Scott E]

I have a rhel 3 EM64T system that was working awesome until yesterday. I
was transferring some files with scp and it just failed in the middle of
it. I try to log back in and after I enter my password it hangs. I had
terms open tried to change to su it hangs. I go to the terminal some
stuff works and others don't like service control and logs guis. I do a
ctr-alt-backspace, and gnome doesn't start. Well I still have a login
that hangs after I enter the password. I restart, and can log in. I can
also su -l user and that works for a bit. As well as the guis that
require authentication too(the ones that didn't work before). I did
updates a week ago and it was running fine until yesterday. I am only
having problems with that. Apache php and mysql are still running
strong.  Maybe a pam issue? I turned off ssh, and ftp and it still does
this.


Thanks for any help.



Scott Duffy