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