System not booting, 'oom-killer' invoked by several processes

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Issue

  • vg is not getting online at boot time
  • machine is hanging at booting
  • in single user mode not able to mount the volumes in rootvg
  • after 'vgchange -a y rootvg' able to mount
  • Why not working at bootime
  • 'oom-killer' invoked by several processes
  • unable to login after boot
  • process traces while trying to login

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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