Why is shutdown taking so long after upgrading from RHEL 8.3 to 8.4?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • There is a /home filesystem on the boot disk and automount is configured to also mount(over) /home from NFS
  • After updating to RHEL 8.4 an issue occurs where a system hangs during shutdown
    • this was not encountered on RHEL 8.3

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4

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