In RHEL 7, performing a restart of the network service takes five (5) minutes and results in the network.service in a failed state
Issue
- On a RHEL 7 host, doing a
network service restartorsystemctl restart network.servicefails after a five minute timeout. This issue seems to only appear whenNetworkManageris running. - During the five minute delay, the system seems to be stuck running the
pidof -x dhclientprocess.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- NetworkManager
- legacy network service scripts (initscripts package)
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