Thanks for the comment, although it has raised more questions for me. I haven't added any new hardware, unless you count the fact that I did connect my new phone to charge it. and I connected my USB bluetooth dongle to transfer data to it. I removed the dongle after the file transfer. Now it is silly question time. Remembering that I know nothing of linux in general. I only went to fedora because I hated the fact that my windowz machine would always crash, and MS uses the world as its beta site. How do I find/locate what the hardware is that is causing the problem? How do I submit a bug report, and how do I know what that report should be in reference to (what am I reporting)? How can I change what FC13 boots to by default. IE. If I select any other open than the first (top) option at startup (F8) the system runs. Regards Fred > On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:43:34 +1300 (NZDT) > "Fred Zinsli" <fred.zinsli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I note there is a boot messages alert. Below is a short piece of that >> message. >> >> I don't have a clue what they mean or how to fix it. >> >> Any comments would be most helpful. > >> Boot Messages: >> >> ION match 'add'(plain) >> >> udevd-work[460]: M ATTRS match 'idVendor' '0638'(plain) >> >> udevd-work[460]: got 'idVendor' ((null)) from cache >> >> udevd-work[460]: forward to rule: 13398 >> >> udevd-work[460]: * RULE /lib/udev/rules.d/65-libsane.rules:1166, >> token: 13398, count: 4, label: '', flags: 0x00 >> >> udevd-work[460]: M ATTRS match 'idVendor' '0638'(plain) >> >> udevd-work[460]: parent: '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb3' >> >> udevd-work[460]: M ATTRS match 'idVendor' '0638'(plain) >> >> udevd-work[460]: got 'idVendor' (1d6b) from cache > > It looks like udev, the system piece that sets up hardware at boot, is > spinning its wheels on something called an ION. When you interrupt, > it somehow is able to take a path that eventually ends at boot. What > happens if you remove that piece of hardware (ION)? Is boot then > normal? > > It would be good to open a bugzilla for the problem as well as it > shouldn't do this. udev should either reject or accept, not get into an > infinite loop. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines