Unable to boot the system

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System is unable to boot and drops the control to emergency mode with following errors:

    Failed to start Security Auditing Service
    Failed to start Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors
    

    also, running any lvm commands at emergency mode shows following errors:

    $ lvs
    Parse error at byte 49153 (line 1095): unexpected token
    Failed to load config file /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All versions)
  • LVM2

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