Yosemite Boot Hangup

(MBP 13in Retina Late 2013 2.6 i5 16gb ram)
I installed Yosemite last night and all went well. I was able to restart/shutdown/sleep with no problems. I was listening to music via home sharing on my iPad and fell asleep. When I woke up, and went to wake the computer up, nothing happened (the computer was not out of battery power). I forced a shutdown and when I booted back up, it would not move past about 1/3 of the way through the apple logo boot progress bar, but I was able to move the cursor. After booting to the recovery drive and running disk utility operations, I still had the same issue. I did a safe boot and it worked, but I'd rather not have to do that every time I boot. Anybody else have this issue? If so, is there a fix? Thank you in advance. (Also, I had no time to check if this was posted before on the forums, so if it was, I apologize and a redirect would be great.)

What solved my case was removing this from:
/Library/Extensions:
LogiMgrDriver.kext (fromLogitech!)
/Library/LaunchAgents:
com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
com.srs.EssentialsAgent.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons:
amsdstat.plist
com.ambrosiasw.ambrosiaaudiosupporthelper.daemon.plist
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist
org.cindori.AuthHelper.plist (Trim Enabler installed this for my SSD on 10.9)
org.cindori.TEAuth.plist (Trim Enabler installed this for my SSD on 10.9)
Now I am going to install Java again... Maybe also Ambrosia Software and Logithech ...

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Thanks Loner T for your response. I don't have any third party NFTS software. At this point I don't think it is worth the effort to attempt to do anything complicated.
I did take some screen grabs and photos as I went through the install for the fourth or fifth time.
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   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
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