System fails to proceed past local-fs.target

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Issue

  • On RHEL7, the system consistently enters emergency/maintenance mode.
  • The system fails to proceed past local-fs.target
  • Messages concerning device timeouts and dependency issues accessing local block devices including logical volumes belonging to the rootvg volume group.
  • Once the system enters emergency mode, all local filesystems are mounted in /proc/mounts.

Environment

Observed on:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- kernel-3.10.0-514.2.2.el7
- systemd-219-30.el7_3.6.x86_64

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