Problem with ssh and pam on today's world and kernel.

When I try to login to a remote server with ssh I am seeing the
following in the auth.log on the remote server.

Mar  9 19:24:21 local1 sshd[2450]: fatal: stat(/dev/#C:212:0x0)
failed: No such file or directory
Mar  9 19:24:21 local1 sshd[2450]: error: chown /dev/#C:212:0x0 0 0
failed: No such file or directory
Mar  9 19:24:21 local1 sshd[2450]: error: chmod /dev/#C:212:0x0 0666
failed: No such file or directory

I didn't have this problem yesterday and I've checked configuration,
mergemaster, pam, etc. and have no idea what could be causing it.

It has me locked me out interactive ssh sessions but commands do work
so I can cvsup and rebuild on the remote machines in case the error is
in today's cvsup.

Any and all suggestions welcome.

Thanks,

ed