System stuck at boot after enabling swap

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System hangs at boot right after enabling swap:
Enabling local swap partitions: OK
  • No other messages appear and the system is unable to complete the boot sequence.
  • VM stuck at boot
  • Server with RH 6.2 has KVM with guests on it
  • A VM stuck at boot with the error
enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [OK]
  • When login to VM at single user mode I don't see any problem with swap or any other error.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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