@downeaster59: That definitely sounds fishy. Nothing jumps out from the log, although there are a couple of weird things...
The quickest way to figure out what's happening would be strace'ing the hung process...

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Barring that, switching to debug mode might yield some more info, or it may not

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EDIT: Stupid question time: Which exact model variant is it?
Compared to, let's say, @7hir7een's? ^^