Thanks to all who suggested solutions... and the winner is - Daniela
It turned out the user's ~/.globus directory was cluttered with various extraneous items. Stripping back to usercert.* and userkey.* was the fix. For info the guff is pasted below. My guess it was something in the certificates fiolder.
Cheers
Jon
lasorak@heppc400:/data/lasorak/t2k/work/frozen$ l ~/.globus/*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 270 Aug 28 10:57 /users/lasorak/.globus/cog.properties
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 236 Aug 26 09:26 /users/lasorak/.globus/myproxy.properties
-r--r--r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 1.6K Aug 28 10:42 /users/lasorak/.globus/usercert.pem
-r-------- 1 lasorak lasorak 1.8K Aug 28 10:42 /users/lasorak/.globus/userkey.pem
/users/lasorak/.globus/certificates:
total 48K
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 1.4K Aug 28 09:56 1b6f5ede.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 293 Aug 28 09:56 1b6f5ede.signing_policy
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 1.4K Aug 28 09:56 530f7122.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 296 Aug 28 09:56 530f7122.signing_policy
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 1.3K Aug 28 09:56 7ed47087.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 587 Aug 28 09:56 7ed47087.signing_policy
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 1.4K Aug 28 09:56 877af676.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 296 Aug 28 09:56 877af676.signing_policy
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 1.3K Aug 28 09:56 98ef0ee5.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 1004 Aug 28 09:56 98ef0ee5.signing_policy
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 1.4K Aug 28 09:56 ffc3d59b.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 293 Aug 28 09:56 ffc3d59b.signing_policy
/users/lasorak/.globus/myproxyservers:
total 12K
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 221 Aug 26 09:26 myproxy.ngs.ac.uk-myproxy.properties
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 236 Aug 26 09:26 myproxy.ngs.ac.uk.web-myproxy.properties
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lasorak lasorak 233 Aug 26 09:26 new_myproxy.gridpp.rl.ac.uk-myproxy.properties
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