systemctl times out with McAfee software active

Issue

• Running systemctl commands return with time out errors while McAfee software is running.

• This issue may present itself in various forms, such as:

  'systemctl list-units --failed' timed out after 300s
  'systemctl list-units --all' timed out after 300s
  'systemctl list-unit-files' timed out after 300s
  'systemctl show-environment' timed out after 300s
  

• OR

  systemd: Job dev-mapper-vg\lv00.device/start timed out.
  systemd: Timed out waiting for device dev-mapper-vg\lv00.device.