How to gather data from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system for troubleshooting if the sosreport process goes to hung state?

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Issue

  • sosreport hangs during collection.
  • sosreport does not finish as it goes to hung state.
  • How to collect data for troubleshooting?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6+

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