(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #4) > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/data/ > NetworkManager.service.in?id=1d89bc0004ec27fbc0c89f17861118c78d7eeab5 and > the referenced bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876218#c49) > have a very nice story why NM is not tearing down the network on 'systemctl > stop NetworkManager' > > => on a shutdown, if you have a NFS mounted root, the root 'disappears' on > you and the shutdown hangs... Ah... yes. Then I'd say: kill -9 dhclient in this case would do the right thing (same as sysconfig were doing before ;-)