syslogd causes hangs

[Bill Nottingham]

Terry R Linhardt (linhardt at swbell.net) said: 
> Tonight I installed updates to Beta 2. The Fedora splash screen simply
> hung. (Never went to a desktop)  I got to a text screen, and did some
> poking around. Finally discovered that if I *killed* the syslogd process
> my splash screen immediately "processed" and I got a graphical desktop.
> Also, graphical access to my home directory worked like a charm. But of
> course my syslogd daemon is now dead. Oh yes, if I manually restart the
> daemon, such things as the graphical access to my home directory once
> again go into the dumper. (Although command line manipulation of the
> directory structure works without a problem).
> 
> Feedback would be appreciated.

What's sysklogd doing if you strace it?

Bill