Dmesg boot errors - system hangs

Question

After a recent update, I'm noticing my system hangs during login.  I enter my login id (root for example), then there's a long pause, then prompt for password, after I enter password, it hangs for about 20 seconds or so, then I'm logged in.  When I log in my regular user, it also hangs.  I have things set up to automatically startx and open some programs after normal user login, but when I log in as normal user it just goes to a standard prompt and doesn't startx, but I can do it manually at the prompt.  Also, I can't seem to ctrl + alt + F2[..3, etc.] to get to a tty.  There's also a long lag between calling PCManFM and the window appearing.  Something is definitely wrong.  Here are some error messages:
$ dmesg
[ 1.437243] systemd[1]: systemd 208 running in system mode. (+PAM -LIBWRAP -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ)
[ 1.437575] systemd[1]: Running in initial RAM disk.
[ 1.437671] systemd[1]: No hostname configured.
[ 1.437681] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <localhost>.
[ 1.437951] systemd[1]: Initializing machine ID from random generator.
[ 1.445007] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit local-fs.target, ignoring: Unit local-fs.target failed to load: No such file or directory.
[ 1.445031] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit swap.target, ignoring: Unit swap.target failed to load: No such file or directory.
[ 1.445064] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit timers.target, ignoring: Unit timers.target failed to load: No such file or directory.
[ 1.445075] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit paths.target, ignoring: Unit paths.target failed to load: No such file or directory.
[ 1.445087] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit slices.target, ignoring: Unit slices.target failed to load: No such file or directory.
[ 9.910942] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 845G Chipset
[ 9.910977] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected gtt size: 131072K total, 131072K mappable
[ 9.911116] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 1024K stolen memory
[ 9.911409] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
[ 10.010484] ACPI Warning: 0x00000828-0x0000082f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GLBC 1 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010497] ACPI Warning: 0x00000828-0x0000082f SystemIO conflicts with Region \SACT 2 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010502] ACPI Warning: 0x00000828-0x0000082f SystemIO conflicts with Region \SSTS 3 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010508] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 10.010513] ACPI Warning: 0x00000880-0x000008af SystemIO conflicts with Region \LEDY 1 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010518] ACPI Warning: 0x00000880-0x000008af SystemIO conflicts with Region \LEDX 2 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010523] ACPI Warning: 0x00000880-0x000008af SystemIO conflicts with Region \SPKR 3 (20130517/utaddress-251)
[ 10.010528] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 123.417439] EXT4-fs (dm-2): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
[ 123.437528] EXT4-fs (dm-2): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 168.871] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 169.336] (WW) intel(0): loading DRI2 whilst the GPU is wedged.
Not sure what's going on...hope someone can help.

Answer 1

So far, things have seemed to improve simply by removing "quiet" from my kernel boot parameters.  Still would appreciate some more insight into the error messages.