RedHat 7.1. On boot up, it hangs starting ipchains firewall settings. If I do an interactive startup, I can bypass all my network stuff and xfont server. This lets me into the system. However, I will sonner or later lose my prompt, and be able to do nothing.

I can find no documenation anywhere on this type of problem, and 3 individuals who I've talked to about this are stumped.