`task modprobe blocked for more than 120 seconds` messages seen during boot.
Issue
- The message
Modprobe time out 120 secs, waiting for thread to finishis seen at boot. INFO: task modprobe:1472 blocked for more than 120 secondsseen repeatedly at boot time- System does not boot, or takes a very long time (~30 minutes) to boot
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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