error: chown /dev/#C:214:0x12 0 0 failed: No such file or directory - on yesterday's world and kernel.

[Edwin Culp]

>From auth.log I'm seeing:

Mar 10 10:02:46 home sshd[60178]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam
for eculp from 207.111.170.49 port 50976 ssh2
Mar 10 10:02:46 home sshd[60178]: fatal: stat(/dev/#C:214:0x12)
failed: No such file or directory
Mar 10 10:02:46 home sshd[60178]: syslogin_perform_logout: logout()
returned an error
Mar 10 10:02:46 home sshd[60178]: error: chown /dev/#C:214:0x12 0 0
failed: No such file or directory
Mar 10 10:02:46 home sshd[60178]: error: chmod /dev/#C:214:0x12 0666
failed: No such file or directory

It seems to have me locked me out interactive ssh sessions 

If I'm misunderstanding the errors, please correct me and if I'm
correct I'd welcome a suggestion for a solution or work around.  I
can't login to  remote machines.

Thanks,

ed