FC6 hangs at 'starting xend' at boot

[Mike Cohler]

 <kevin.kempter <at> dataintellect.com> writes:
 
> I've recently installed FC6 on an IBM Thinkpad. After I ran the updates the 
> system now hangs for about 2 minutes at 'Starting xend'
> 
> Any suggestions?

If you don't need xend then once it is booted then as root do
service xend stop
chkconfig xend off

If you then reboot if won;t try to start xend.

Mike