Laptop bootup randomly stalls

[Richard Shaw]

My wife's laptop has been having some sort of problem booting up since F18,
though I have no idea if the current problem with F20 is the same problem
or not.

The bootup process will randomly stall and most of the time you can't get
to a VT though it isn't locked up as a Ctl-Alt-Del will cause a proper
shutdown and reboot. There's a lot of noise trying to find the issue in
journalctl -b -1 (after a successful boot) but I think MAYBE this is it...

Apr 11 07:56:43 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus-daemon[723]: dbus[723]:
[system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out
Apr 11 07:56:43 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus[723]: [system] Failed to
activate service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out
Apr 11 07:56:43 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus-daemon[723]: dbus[723]:
[system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
Apr 11 07:56:43 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus[723]: [system] Failed to
activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
Apr 11 07:56:43 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus-daemon[723]: dbus[723]:
[system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager': timed
out
Apr 11 07:56:43 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus-daemon[723]: dbus[723]:
[system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service
name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' unit='colord.se
Apr 11 07:56:43 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus[723]: [system] Failed to
activate service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager': timed out
Apr 11 07:56:43 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus[723]: [system] Activating
systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager'
unit='colord.service'
Apr 11 07:56:44 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus-daemon[723]: dbus[723]:
[system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts': timed out
Apr 11 07:56:44 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus[723]: [system] Failed to
activate service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts': timed out
Apr 11 07:56:44 ladyhobbes.localdomain gdm[727]: Failed to contact
accountsservice: Error calling StartServiceByName for
org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freed
Apr 11 07:56:44 ladyhobbes.localdomain kernel: traps: gdm-simple-slav[863]
trap int3 ip:7f4e822604e9 sp:7fff0619c650 error:0
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain abrt-hook-ccpp[1110]: Saved core
dump of pid 863 (/usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave) to
/var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2014-04-11-07:56:44-863 (2
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21
from PID 226 (plymouthd).
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus-daemon[723]: dbus[723]:
[system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call",
sender=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=727 co
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus-daemon[723]: dbus[723]:
[system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service
name='org.freedesktop.Accounts' unit='accounts-daem
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus[723]: [system] Rejected send
message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.4" (uid=0
pid=727
comm="/usr/sbin/gdm
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus[723]: [system] Activating
systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.Accounts'
unit='accounts-daemon.service'
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain gdm[727]: Child process 1119 was
already dead.
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain gdm[727]: GLib-GObject:
g_object_ref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain gdm[727]: GLib-GObject:
g_object_unref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain gdm[727]: GdmDisplay: display lasted
0.345361 seconds
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Wait for
Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit.
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus-daemon[723]: dbus[723]:
[system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call",
sender=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=727 co
Apr 11 07:56:45 ladyhobbes.localdomain dbus[723]: [system] Rejected send
message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.4" (uid=0
pid=727
comm="/usr/sbin/gdm


Any pointers?
Thanks,
Richard