Suse 9.0 hangs on boot

This system had been working fine until today. I was trying to configure jpilot to sych Evolution to a new Palm Tungsten E. At one point I restarted the system and it stopped at "Setting up loopback interface" . After about ten minutes it continued with the error, "_alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)" Booting appeared to continue normally until it got to "Starting hotplugging services" at which point it hung and never continued. All I could do was reset the computer with the same result. I tried to unplug all usb devices to no avail. Any ideas?