[RHEL 8.8] Shutdown gets hang while running a stop job on luks device.

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8
  • systemd-239-74.el8_8.x86_64
  • Luks devices over a network

Issue

  • Unable to reboot the system when the system has luks device.
  • The system gets hang during shutdown with below message.
A stop job running for /dev/mapper/<luks-mapped-device>

Resolution

  • The issue is currently being investigated under Red Hat Jira RHEL-6210.
  • As a workaround downgrade the systemd package to systemd-239-68.el8_7.4.

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