Mac OS X Terminal not logging in

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Published on 2010-04-16T12:41:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 12:43 UTC
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I am running Mac OS X version 10.6.3 and when I open the terminal (with terminal.app or iterm) it just hangs on the login process. I've tried restarting, changing the startup command to /bin/bash, and deleting the terminal preference file. All to no avail.

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