Terminal does not login; blank window

Hello!
I use the Terminal occasionally and today I had to run a sudo command. It asked for my password, but I decided to cancel the command because I was in a hurry. I quit the terminal and now, every time I open it, nothing happens.
There is a white window where every command just does not work! Nothing happens!!
You can type in what you want, but nothing else.
Any suggestions?

As an experiment, download and try iTerm (free download)
<http://iterm.sourceforge.net/>
If iTerm fails the same way, then the problem has nothing to do with Terminal. If iTerm works, then it is something specific to Terminal.
Using iTerm is a way to narrow down where the problem might be.
You said you were following a tutorial, so it is also possible that some steps in the tutorial before the sudo command actually messed things up, but it would not be evident until you restarted Terminal.
Oh yea. Terminal and Unix oriented questions are best asked in the Mac OS X Technologies > Unix Forum
<http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735>
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