Why does system stuck during booting with error "A start job is running for dev-mapper-\x2droot.device" ?

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Issue

  • System stuck at boot process with an error message "A start job is running for dev-mapper-\x2droot.device".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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