Maintenance login over iLO is not possible

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Issue

When the system does a filesystem check but requires manual intervention, login on the maintenance console is not possible. With every key-press the following two lines are being displayed over and over again:

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

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