Description:

I have a desktop and two notebooks that use networkmanager to connect to my LAN via WiFi. I have an NFS server and all three machines connect to an NFS share during bootup. At shutdown, I regularly receive a "A stop job is running..." message from systemd on all three machines, since the network connection is already cvlosed and the NFS share unmounted, but systemd still tries to stop the networkmanager.service properly.

Even worse, since the last update of systemd, the stop job message never stops, it counts until 1min30s and then counts until 3mins and then untils ...

In a forum post I have found a solution that works. According to this post, the patch in the networkmanager.service files should already be upstream. Unfortunately, in the recent update from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2, this patch is not in the Arch Linux package.

The following changes need to be made:

[Unit]
...
Before=network-online.target network.target
After=dbus.service
...

When using wpa_supplicant, a similar change needs to be done to its service file:
[Unit]
...
Before=network.target