After upgrading RHEL version from 5.9 to 5.10 or from 6.4 to 6.5 the system hangs on "Restarting system / machine restart" when reboot is issued
Issue
- After upgrading from RHEL 5.9 to 5.10 system hangs during reboot, following are the last few messages on the console:
Restarting system
.
machine restart
- After upgrading from RHEL 6.4 to 6.5 system hangs during reboot, following are the last few messages on the console:
Please stand by while rebooting the system...
Restarting system.
- The system also locks up on the reboot after booting in the older kernel.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Dell PowerEdge T110, T310, R310
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