Basic system utilities such as "ps", "pgrep", "gawk" or "sed" crash randomly with SIGSEGV or SIGILL signal

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We can see simple utilities such as ps, pgrep, gawk or sed crash randomly after receiving a SIGSEGV or SIGILL signal

  • Critical system components such as systemd-udevd, dbus-daemon or bash crash randomly after receiving a SIGSEGV or SIGILL signal

  • On the system running latest available systemd for the OS release, systemd crashes during the boot, causing a kernel panic

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and later

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