System hangs with "init: rc main process (<pid>) killed by KILL signal" when unmounting filesystems on shutdown.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System hangs on shutdown with the following message:
Unmounting file systems: [OK]
/tmp:   rcercrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrce
init: rc main process (<pid>) killed by KILL signal

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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