[BrainStorm]

I believe this may be the exact same problem Sabra and I encountered recently setting up her Octane2 with a fresh install of 6.5.23m. Eventually, between the two of us playing with things, she came to me and said her desktop had disappeared. Upon restart it did a memory dump at shutdown, and went into a continuous rolling error at boot time.

I was following a path of 'it's a DNS resolve problem' until I tried to open a man page. I was concluding that from searching the net until Google's servers started smoking; a LOT of people with what appears to be similar, if not same, issue. [historically]

I will be starting with a fresh install today, but going to just go for 6.5.30m from the get go. Will keep tabs, and update if I find anything helpful in my endeavor. Good luck Anderswk.

One thought I have: When I installed 6.5.23, I did not have an ethernet cable plugged in. I noticed a couple things set different than what I remembered. So, does having a live ethernet connection at time of install, dictate default settings in chkconfig or elsewhere?