Well after much searching I found the offending setting.? From?
"if you are using GPS ensure you are explicitly specifying the GPS device you are using and disable USB hot add/remove of devices in the /etc/default/gpsd file."
Whoda thunk it?? In the /etc/default/gpsd file set the following:
# Automatically hot add/remove USB GPS devices via gpsdctl
USBAUTO="false"
