Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 system hangs for about 30 minutes at shutdown after bringing down network service

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Issue

  • A Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 system hangs for ~30 minutes during shutdown after is bringing down the network.
bonding: bond0: releasing active interface eth0
bonding: bond0: making interface eth1 the new active one.
bonding: bond0: Removing slave eth1
bonding: bond0: releasing active interface eth1  [  OK  ]

<system hangs for a few minutes, and each shutdown script after this point hangs for a few minutes before running>

Shutting down loopback interface:  [  OK  ]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4+

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