System hangs during kdump

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System hangs during kdump with the following message being the last:

    Starting udev:
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
  • The box has be2net 10G network NIC under bonding configuration
  • /etc/kdump.conf should be the stock default. This means that the kdump kernel boots to the rootfs.

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