first off thanks for the response Alien Bob..
wierd ..this install of slack that i'm using is sort of in constant upgrade it started as slack 10,upgraded to 10.1,10.2 and now to current..never noticed any of the debug stuff during boot before and udp was never listed in socklist..perhaps this dhcpcd upgrade actually fixed something on my setup that i didn't know was broken

..did notice that after the 10.2 upgrade when i rebooted i got a message that /sbin/dhcpcd was not running and know i don't get that message anymore..guess things just sorted themselves out..