New Search topology stuck on "activating"

Hi,

I have just set up a new SharePoint 2013 (RTM) environment.  This is an all-in-one (SQL 2012 and SharePoint 2013 on the same computer) development environment.  The OS isWindows Server 2012, with all important/critical patches.  I can't activate a search topology.

The Seach SA was created with an empty active topology...I'm not sure if that is normal.  So I created a new Topology and tried to activate it. The Powershell command to activate (last command below) hangs.  Other symptoms include the following messages from the ULS:

11/23/2012 09:46:29.07  mssearch.exe (0x1608)                    0x16D4 SharePoint Server Search       Crawler:Content Plugin         cd11 Critical Content Plugin can not be initialized - list of CSS addresses is not set.  
11/23/2012 09:46:29.07  mssearch.exe (0x1608)                    0x16D4 SharePoint Server Search       Crawler:Content Plugin         du0c High     Failed to extract required parameter FastConnector:ContentDistributor, hr=0x80070002  [pluginconfig.cpp:81]  search\native\gather\plugins\contentpi\pluginconfig.cpp  
11/23/2012 09:46:29.34  mssearch.exe (0x1608)                    0x1614 SharePoint Server              Unified Logging Service        2159 Critical Event 2548 (SharePoint Server Search) of severity 'Error' occurred 30 more time(s) and was suppressed in the event log  

If I open another PowerShell session and look at the topology, the status is "Activating". The original topology is "deactivating."  I also checked processes and found that all the NodeRunner processes have been started.  Because the original topology is empty, these processes where not there before. 

If I restart the server, the old (empty) topology goes back to active, and there noderunner processes are not running.

This all sounds very similar to problems that were reported with the preview edition, but supposedly fixed.

Any ideas???

Below are the commands I used to create and active the topology

$SearchSA = Get-SPServiceApplication | ?{$_.Name -match "Search"}
$SSI = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance 'cod-sp2013'
$oldTopology = $SearchSA | Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Active 
$newTopology = $SearchSA | New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology

New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $SSI 
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent   -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $SSI 
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent               -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $SSI 
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent               -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $SSI 
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent     -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $SSI 
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent               -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $SSI  -IndexPartition 0 -RootDirectory D:\IndexFiles

Set-SPEnterpriseSearchAdministrationComponent -SearchApplication $SearchSA -SearchServiceInstance  $SSI 
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology $newTopology