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OCI: Instance fails to boot “Failed to remount '/' read-only: Device or resource busy"

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Instance crash while generating sosreport and fails to boot.

#sosreport --batch --all-logs -k sar.all_sar=on
..
Finishing plugins [Running: auditd yum] Finishing plugins [Running: yum] Finished running plugins Creating compressed archive... Network error: Software caused connection abort

Console log upon reboot show:

[  OK  ] Stopped LVM2 metadata daemon.
[  OK  ] Reached target Shutdown.
[  OK  ] Reached target Final Step.        
Starting Power-Off...
[  OK  ] Closed LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[   97.078404] systemd-shutdown[1518]: Failed to remount '/' read-only: Device or resource busy
[   97.081483] systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to wait for process: Protocol error
[   98.306782] reboot: Power down

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