Steve, turns out, there already was such a bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1066484/comments/11
Regarding the CIFS mounts: Today, I changed the "auto" cifs mounts during startup to "noauto,user" mounts, which get mounted by my user using a script after login. At the end of the day, the delay upon shutdown was gone.
Steve, turns out, there already was such a bug report:
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ network- manager/ +bug/1066484/ comments/ 11
Regarding the CIFS mounts: Today, I changed the "auto" cifs mounts during startup to "noauto,user" mounts, which get mounted by my user using a script after login. At the end of the day, the delay upon shutdown was gone.