Programs like Terminal and Console and TextEdit won't open...

When I try to open Terminal, it just sits there and hangs at the pinweel. it displays "login" in the title bar.
I've tried deleteing the terminal preferences file, and I've tried running it under different users, even creating a new user account, it hangs on it all.
I tried opening up the Console to perhaps look at errors, that hangs as well.
Even trying to open some of my shell config files using TextEdit, hangs as well.
It seems like something with the shell is broken, and is affecting all users on the system because Terminal is getting hung on the "login" process.
I'm not as familiar with Mac as I am with systems such as FreeBSD and such so I don't know where to begin with troubleshooting as I'm pretty much stuck in the GUI and have no access to a shell.
There were a few threads similar to this but the issue never seemed to be resolved.
I Appreciate any help.

Welcome to Apple Community Discussions.
Try starting in single user mode. Run *fsck -fy* to start with. I think you'll feel familiar enough to take it from there?
-mj

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