System Hangs with "cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller" error

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Issue

  • System Hangs with cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller error
[262641.882134] cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in /user.slice/user-0.slice/session-c5439.scope
[262701.440236] cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in /user.slice/user-0.slice/session-c5440.scope
[262760.235205] cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in /user.slice/user-0.slice/session-c5441.scope
[262820.341132] cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in /user.slice/user-0.slice/session-c5442.scope

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • cgroup

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