No status messages on restart

[Jim Dever <jdever triad rr com>]

For some reason whenever I restart Fedora 9 I don't get the normal 
status messages during shutdown that I got with F8.  I get the standard 
runlevel 3 login screen.  It pauses and finally says "Restarting..." and 
restarts.

A few times after I first installed it (clean install) it gave a quick 
message that I never could quite read about "not being able to connect 
to system message bus" but unfortunately I haven't been able to see this 
message.  Is it logged somewhere?

Any help would be appreciated.

--
Jim