F16 failure to completely boot - hangs at 'Started Display Manager'

[Gregory P. Ennis]

Everyone,

Help!!!!

I have a laptop with F16 that now refuses to boot into the logon screen
this morning.  

The boot sequence pauses at


Starting Display Manager.....
Started Display Manger


There is one error message displayed before the above line items:

Failed to start LSB: Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages
See 'systemctl status akmods.service' for details

When systemctl.... is executed the results are :

akmods.service - LSB: Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages
          Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/akmods)
          Active: failed since Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:05:39 -0600; 16h ago
         Process: 1022 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/akmods start
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/akmods.service

If any of you can give me a starting place to debug this I would
appreciate your efforts.

Thank you,

Greg Ennis

P.S. Yesterday there were some yum updates that occurred :

Mar 10 07:37:08 Updated: 1:libreoffice-ure-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:21 Updated: wine-core-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:22 Updated: wine-common-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:37:23 Updated: wine-cms-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:24 Updated: wine-wow-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:24 Updated: wine-alsa-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:24 Updated: wine-pulseaudio-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:25 Updated: wine-ldap-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:26 Updated: wine-twain-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:26 Updated: wine-openal-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:27 Updated: wine-capi-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:29 Updated:
1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-libs-0.9.0-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:31 Updated:
1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9.0-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:34 Updated:
1:libreoffice-opensymbol-fonts-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:37:34 Updated: wine-small-fonts-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:37:37 Installed:
system-config-keyboard-base-1.3.1-6.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:37:37 Updated: wine-system-fonts-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:37:38 Updated: wine-symbol-fonts-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:37:38 Updated: wine-courier-fonts-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:37:39 Updated: wine-marlett-fonts-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:37:39 Updated: 1:autocorr-en-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:37:41 Updated: graphite2-1.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:15 Updated: 1:libreoffice-core-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:20 Updated:
1:libreoffice-presenter-screen-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:22 Updated: 1:libreoffice-impress-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:23 Updated:
1:libreoffice-graphicfilter-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:24 Updated: 1:libreoffice-draw-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:25 Updated: 1:libreoffice-pdfimport-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:25 Updated: wine-ms-sans-serif-fonts-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:38:26 Updated: wine-tahoma-fonts-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:38:26 Updated: wine-fonts-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:38:27 Updated: wine-systemd-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:38:28 Updated: 1:libreoffice-math-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:28 Updated: 1:libreoffice-kde-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:31 Updated: 1:libreoffice-calc-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:32 Updated: 1:libreoffice-langpack-en-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:32 Updated: 1:libreoffice-xsltfilter-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:35 Updated: 1:libreoffice-writer-3.4.5.2-8.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:53 Updated: system-config-keyboard-1.3.1-6.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:53 Updated:
1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-vpnc-0.9.0-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:54 Updated:
1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-openvpn-0.9.0-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:38:54 Updated:
1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-pptp-0.9.0-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:39:00 Updated: wine-devel-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:39:00 Updated: wine-sysvinit-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:39:03 Updated: 1:dovecot-2.0.18-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:39:04 Updated: pycairo-1.8.10-4.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:39:06 Updated: 1:php-pear-1.9.4-5.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:39:08 Updated: icedtea-web-1.2-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:39:08 Updated: perl-HTTP-Message-6.03-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:39:09 Updated: openjpeg-libs-1.4-12.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:39:14 Updated: tzdata-2011n-4.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:39:17 Updated: xiphos-3.1.5-1.fc16.x86_64
Mar 10 07:39:19 Updated: tzdata-java-2011n-4.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:39:28 Updated: wine-core-1.4-1.fc16.i686
Mar 10 07:39:29 Updated: wine-desktop-1.4-1.fc16.noarch
Mar 10 07:39:29 Updated: wine-capi-1.4-1.fc16.i686
Mar 10 07:39:30 Updated: wine-cms-1.4-1.fc16.i686
Mar 10 07:39:31 Updated: wine-alsa-1.4-1.fc16.i686
Mar 10 07:39:32 Updated: wine-pulseaudio-1.4-1.fc16.i686
Mar 10 07:39:34 Updated: wine-openal-1.4-1.fc16.i686
Mar 10 07:39:34 Updated: wine-twain-1.4-1.fc16.i686
Mar 10 07:39:35 Updated: wine-ldap-1.4-1.fc16.i686
Mar 10 07:39:36 Updated: wine-1.4-1.fc16.x86_64