[CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>> Did you mean ping nytimes.com ?
>>      tcpdump -A port 50 output is tcpdump: verbose output suppressed,
>> use -v or -w for all protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB
>> (Ethernet), capturing size 65535 bytes, and a blinking cursor which I
>> left for 20 min and re-started, tried with  -v  got listening on eth0,
>> type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes. re-started and meant
>> to use  -w but forgot and just typed tcpdump. That gave tons of output
>> which I can't fathom  and let it go for 30 minutes. Re-started one more
>> time and pinged nytimes.com  That returned screenful  of data packets
>> all ok. Then shutdown  til tomorrow.
>
> I think he meant port 53 instead of 50 to catch the DNS exchange -
> which now sounds like it is working anyway.    When you start, does
> gnome eventually work normally now?.    I'd do a 'yum update' on
> general principles if you at least have the network running.
>
Thanks, Les, that was what I meant. I've been snowed under all week, and
more so today: it's not one thing after another, it's three things all at
the same time....

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