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Server is not booting up. Stuck after "Welcome to

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
$ SOLUTION VERIFIED - Updated February 4 2018 at 12:25 AM - English ()

Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue
After a scheduled reboot the system hangs immediately following
" Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server "
No updates were applied and no known changes were made prior to the reboot
Removed " rhgb quiet " from the command line but we still do not see any errors
Older installed kernel and single user mode hang in the same location

After reducing RAM, system will not boot and loops with Out of memory and
Killed process messages before init completes.

Resolution
Remove any erroneous hugepage allocation vm.nr_hugepages from /etc/sysctl.conf
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, backup and rebuild the initramfs
(https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1958) to have the new setting apply
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Hugepage allocation was set to a larger value than total RAM

# grep vm.nr_hugepages /etc/sysctl.conf

vm.nr_hugepages = 79252380

# grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 137995282 kB

$ echo '79252380*2' | bc
158504760

The HugePage allocation exceeds total installed RAM.

Diagnostic Steps
Interrupt grub during boot and add " init=/bin/bash " to the kernel command line. Boot
with these changes and drop into a bash shell prior to applying any sysctls.

Remount the root filesystem read-write

bash-4.1# mount -o remount rw /

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to comment out an incorrect hugepage setting

bash-4.1# vi /etc/sysctl.conf
..........
#vm.nr_hugepages = 79252380

Remount read only then reset the machine via power switch

bash-4.1# mount -o remount ro /

Product(s) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (/taxonomy/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux)

Component kernel (/components/kernel) Category Troubleshoot (/category/troubleshoot)

Tags hang (/tags/hang) memory (/tags/memory)

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