[CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

[J Martin Rushton]

On 22/05/2019 14:43, mark wrote:
> James Pearson wrote:
>> James Pearson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an
>>>  upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop
>>> job is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a limit of '1min
>>> 30s' -
>>> but each time it reaches that limit, it just adds on ~90 seconds to the
>>> limit ...
>>>
>>> Currently the limit is '25min 33s'
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm in no hurry to have this workstation operational, but I guess at
>>> some point I will have to power cycle it ...
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to bypass this? - or at least stop it increasing
>>> the limit each time it is reached?
>>>
>>> It does seems rather pointless to keep increasing the limit like this
>>> ...
>>>
>> It _finally_ gave up at 30 mins and rebooted
> 
> One question: did it have a mounted nfs filesystem?
> 
> The joys of systemd....
> 
>          mark
> 
>      mark
> 
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J Martin Rushton MBCS

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